group_metric {fairmodels}

Group metric

Description

Group metric enables to extract data from metrics generated for each subgroup (values in protected variable) The closer metric values are to each other, the less bias particular model has. If parity_loss parameter is set to TRUE, distance between privileged and unprivileged subgroups will be measured. When plotted shows both fairness metric and chosen performance metric.

Usage

group_metric(
  x,
  fairness_metric = NULL,
  performance_metric = NULL,
  parity_loss = FALSE,
  verbose = TRUE
)

Arguments

x

object of class fairness_object

fairness_metric

character, fairness metric name, if NULL the default metric will be used which is TPR.

performance_metric

character, performance metric name

parity_loss

logical, if TRUE parity loss will supersede basic metric

verbose

logical, whether to print information about metrics on console or not. Default TRUE

Details

Available metrics:

Fairness metrics (Full names explained in fairness_check documentation):

• TPR

• TNR

• PPV

• NPV

• FNR

• FPR

• FDR

• FOR

• TS

• ACC

• STP

• F1

Performance metrics

• recall

• precision

• accuracy

• f1

• auc

Value

group_metric object. It is a list with following items:

• group_metric_data - data.frame containing fairness metric scores for each model

• performance_data - data.frame containing performance metric scores for each model

• fairness_metric - name of fairness metric

• performance_metric - name of performance metric

Examples

data("german")

y_numeric <- as.numeric(german$Risk) - 1

lm_model <- glm(Risk ~ .,
  data = german,
  family = binomial(link = "logit")
)


explainer_lm <- DALEX::explain(lm_model, data = german[, -1], y = y_numeric)

fobject <- fairness_check(explainer_lm,
  protected = german$Sex,
  privileged = "male"
)

gm <- group_metric(fobject, "TPR", "f1", parity_loss = TRUE)
plot(gm)


rf_model <- ranger::ranger(Risk ~ .,
  data = german,
  probability = TRUE,
  num.trees = 200
)

explainer_rf <- DALEX::explain(rf_model, data = german[, -1], y = y_numeric)

fobject <- fairness_check(explainer_rf, fobject)

gm <- group_metric(fobject, "TPR", "f1", parity_loss = TRUE)

plot(gm)