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ArticleKDD : proceedings. International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining2017

The Selective Labels Problem: Evaluating Algorithmic Predictions in the Presence of Unobservables.

Himabindu Lakkaraju, Jon Kleinberg, Jure Leskovec, Jens Ludwig, Sendhil Mullainathan

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Article in KDD : proceedings. International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Does AI help humans make better decisions? A statistical evaluation framework for experimental and observational studies.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  4. Building Nondiscriminatory Algorithms in Selected Data.American economic review. Insights · 2025
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  10. Predicting high-risk opioid prescriptions before they are given.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
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  12. HUMAN DECISIONS AND MACHINE PREDICTIONS.The quarterly journal of economics · 2018
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  13. Introduction to the Special Collection on the Fragile Families Challenge.Socius : sociological research for a dynamic world
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Himabindu LakkarajuStanford University.
Jon KleinbergCornell University.
Jure LeskovecStanford University.
Jens LudwigUniversity of Chicago.
Sendhil MullainathanHarvard University.

Funding

Training CoreU54EB020405 · NIBIB · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI DELP, SCOTT L · 2014 to 2018
$11.6M
NIBIB NIH HHS U54 EB020405
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Evaluating whether machines improve on human performance is one of the central questions of machine learning. However, there are many domains where the data is

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PMID29780658
PMCPMC5958915

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