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Births are difficult to predict even with rich survey and full-population register data
Elizaveta Sivak, Emily M. Cantrell, Thomas Emery +109
Major life events have proven difficult to predict. Does this reflect limits of theory, data, and algorithms, or the large role of chance? We examine one outcome - having a child w…
Bridging Prediction and Intervention Problems in Social Systems
Lydia T. Liu, Inioluwa Deborah Raji, Angela Zhou +32
Many automated decision systems (ADS) are designed to solve prediction problems -- where the goal is to learn patterns from a sample of the population and apply them to individuals…
REFORMS: Reporting Standards for Machine Learning Based Science
Sayash Kapoor, Emily Cantrell, Kenny Peng +16
Machine learning (ML) methods are proliferating in scientific research. However, the adoption of these methods has been accompanied by failures of validity, reproducibility, and ge…