Targeted Learning for Inference on Data Fairness

The paper introduces a targeted learning approach to assess fairness in the data generating process used for training predictive models, rather than focusing solely on model performance. It derives estimators for demographic parity, equal opportunity, and conditional mutual information, and demonstrates through simulations that these estimators improve confidence‑interval coverage and reduce false detections of population unfairness compared to fixed‑model inference. The authors also apply the method to real data to illustrate its practical utility.

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