Fairness Under Unawareness: Assessing Disparity When Protected Class Is Unobserved

1 code implementation • 27 Nov 2018 • Jiahao Chen, Nathan Kallus, Xiaojie Mao, Geoffry Svacha, Madeleine Udell

We also propose an alternative weighted estimator that uses soft classification, and show that its bias arises simply from the conditional covariance of the outcome with the true class membership.

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