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Auteur principal: Ribeiro, Andre F.
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Publié: 2022
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author Ribeiro, Andre F.
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contents Different statistical samples (e.g., from different locations) offer populations and learning systems observations with distinct statistical properties. Samples under (1) 'Unconfounded' growth preserve systems' ability to determine the independent effects of their individual variables on any outcome-of-interest (and lead, therefore, to fair and interpretable black-box predictions). Samples under (2) 'Externally-Valid' growth preserve their ability to make predictions that generalize across out-of-sample variation. The first promotes predictions that generalize over populations, the second over their shared uncontrolled factors. We illustrate these theoretic patterns in the full American census from 1840 to 1940, and samples ranging from the street-level all the way to the national. This reveals sample requirements for generalizability over space and time, and new connections among the Shapley value, counterfactual statistics, and hyperbolic geometry.
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spellingShingle Spatio-Causal Patterns of Sample Growth
Ribeiro, Andre F.
Methodology
Discrete Mathematics
Different statistical samples (e.g., from different locations) offer populations and learning systems observations with distinct statistical properties. Samples under (1) 'Unconfounded' growth preserve systems' ability to determine the independent effects of their individual variables on any outcome-of-interest (and lead, therefore, to fair and interpretable black-box predictions). Samples under (2) 'Externally-Valid' growth preserve their ability to make predictions that generalize across out-of-sample variation. The first promotes predictions that generalize over populations, the second over their shared uncontrolled factors. We illustrate these theoretic patterns in the full American census from 1840 to 1940, and samples ranging from the street-level all the way to the national. This reveals sample requirements for generalizability over space and time, and new connections among the Shapley value, counterfactual statistics, and hyperbolic geometry.
title Spatio-Causal Patterns of Sample Growth
topic Methodology
Discrete Mathematics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.13961