Penalized Fair Regression for Multiple Groups in Chronic Kidney Disease
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| author | Nakamoto, Carter H. Chen, Lucia Lushi Foryciarz, Agata Rose, Sherri |
| author_facet | Nakamoto, Carter H. Chen, Lucia Lushi Foryciarz, Agata Rose, Sherri |
| contents | Fair regression methods have the potential to mitigate societal bias concerns in health care, but there has been little work on penalized fair regression when multiple groups experience such bias. We propose a general regression framework that addresses this gap with unfairness penalties for multiple groups. Our approach is demonstrated for binary outcomes with true positive rate disparity penalties. It can be efficiently implemented through reduction to a cost-sensitive classification problem. We additionally introduce novel score functions for automatically selecting penalty weights. Our penalized fair regression methods are empirically studied in simulations, where they achieve a fairness-accuracy frontier beyond that of existing comparison methods. Finally, we apply these methods to a national multi-site primary care study of chronic kidney disease to develop a fair classifier for end-stage renal disease. There we find substantial improvements in fairness for multiple race and ethnicity groups who experience societal bias in the health care system without any appreciable loss in overall fit. |
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| spellingShingle | Penalized Fair Regression for Multiple Groups in Chronic Kidney Disease Nakamoto, Carter H. Chen, Lucia Lushi Foryciarz, Agata Rose, Sherri Methodology Computers and Society Machine Learning Applications Fair regression methods have the potential to mitigate societal bias concerns in health care, but there has been little work on penalized fair regression when multiple groups experience such bias. We propose a general regression framework that addresses this gap with unfairness penalties for multiple groups. Our approach is demonstrated for binary outcomes with true positive rate disparity penalties. It can be efficiently implemented through reduction to a cost-sensitive classification problem. We additionally introduce novel score functions for automatically selecting penalty weights. Our penalized fair regression methods are empirically studied in simulations, where they achieve a fairness-accuracy frontier beyond that of existing comparison methods. Finally, we apply these methods to a national multi-site primary care study of chronic kidney disease to develop a fair classifier for end-stage renal disease. There we find substantial improvements in fairness for multiple race and ethnicity groups who experience societal bias in the health care system without any appreciable loss in overall fit. |
| title | Penalized Fair Regression for Multiple Groups in Chronic Kidney Disease |
| topic | Methodology Computers and Society Machine Learning Applications |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17340 |