Is the Model Fair?
Understand how to evaluate if a credit scoring model is fair by examining regression coefficients to detect bias. Learn to test the influence of gender attributes on predictions and develop intuition on potential fairness issues. This lesson sets the foundation for measuring and mitigating model bias in later parts of the course.
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Now, we move to the exciting part. There is a model, and we want to know if it is fair. Before we learn how to do this systematically, we will perform some experiments:
Examine regression coefficients. Logistic regression provides a straightforward method to understand internal logic. Each feature is associated with a numerical value. The bigger ...