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lawschool: lawschool Bayesian Network

Description

A survey on datasets for fairness-aware machine learning.

Arguments

Value

An object of class bn.fit. Refer to the documentation of bnlearn for details.

Format

A discrete Bayesian network modeling law school admission records. The DAG was taken from the referenced paper and the probabilities learned from the associated dataset. The vertices are:

fam_inc

The student's family income bracket (1, 2, 3, 4, 5);

fulltime

Whether the student will work full-time or part-time (1, 2);

lsat

The student's LSAT score (<=37, 37);

male

Whether the student is male or female (female, male);

pass_bar

Whether the student passed the bar exam on the first try (negative, positive);

racetxt

Race (non-white, white);

tier

Tier (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6);

ugpa

The student's undergraduate GPA (<3,3, >=3.3);

zfygpa

The first year law school GPA (<=0, >0);

zgpa

The cumulative law school GPA (<=0, >0);

References

Le Quy, T., Roy, A., Iosifidis, V., Zhang, W., & Ntoutsi, E. (2022). A survey on datasets for fairness-aware machine learning. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 12(3), e1452.