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In statistics, the question of checking whether a coin is fair is one whose importance lies, firstly, in providing a simple problem on which to illustrate basic ideas of statistical inference and, secondly, in providing a simple problem that can be used to compare various competing methods of statistical inference, including decision theory.
Fairness, absence of bias in specific realms: In American broadcasting, presentation of controversies in accord with the Fairness Doctrine. In computer science, fairness is a property of unbounded nondeterminism. In computer science, and specifically in machine learning, fairness is a desirable property of algorithms to avoid bias.
Envy-free (EF) item allocation is a fair item allocation problem, in which the fairness criterion is envy-freeness - each agent should receive a bundle that they believe to be at least as good as the bundle of any other agent. [1]: 296–297 Since the items are indivisible, an EF assignment may not exist.
President Joe Biden signed the Social Security Fairness Act into law Sunday afternoon, marking what is expected to be one of the last major pieces of legislation of his presidency. Prior to ...
The Social Security Fairness Act, one of the most bipartisan bills in Congress this session, aims to repeal WEP and GPO. The House voted to pass the legislation Nov. 12, and the Senate approved it ...
The fairness doctrine of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC), introduced in 1949, was a policy that required the holders of broadcast licenses both to present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that fairly reflected differing viewpoints. [1]
On Sunday, Biden signed the Social Security Fairness Act which eliminates two decades-old provisions − the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO) − that ...
Equalized odds, [1] also referred to as conditional procedure accuracy equality and disparate mistreatment, is a measure of fairness in machine learning.A classifier satisfies this definition if the subjects in the protected and unprotected groups have equal true positive rate and equal false positive rate, [2] satisfying the formula: