Addressing Discretization-Induced Bias in Demographic Prediction

E Dong, A Schein, Y Wang, N Garg - arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.16762, 2024 - arxiv.org
Racial and other demographic imputation is necessary for many applications, especially in
auditing disparities and outreach targeting in political campaigns. The canonical approach is …

The Power of Characters: Evaluating Machine Learning-Modified Bayesian Improved Surname Geocoding Inference of Race in Redistricting

JA Curiel, K DeLuca - State Politics & Policy Quarterly, 2024 - cambridge.org
Identifying racial disparities in policy and politics is a pressing area of research within the
United States. Where early work made use of identifying potentially noisy correlations …

Essays in Computational Demography

A Decter-Frain - 2024 - search.proquest.com
Computational demography involves the use of new data and computational methods to
improve measurement and understanding of population processes. This dissertation …