Predictive Parity

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Predictive parity definition

The second fairness-specific metric is called predictive parity. In contrast to demographic parity, it also needs actual labels. An alternative name is predictive rate parity or outcome test.

The shape of the definition is similar to demographic parity. We compute a metric for all groups separately and compare if the values are similar.

Its format definition is the following:

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