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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Causal framework."”.
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A Causal Framework to Evaluate Racial Bias in Law Enforcement Systems
… to isolate the true source of bias within the “causal chain of interactions” rather than simply focusing on the end outcome; this can help guide reforms. In this work, we address these challenges by presenting a multi-stage causal framework incorporating criminality. We provide a theoretical …
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Life History Strategy And The Role Of Self-Regulation In Cheating Behavior
… the role of self-regulation, and if the distal causal framework of life history theory could illuminate the relationships between self-regulation and cheating behavior. Participants in the experimental condition had their state self-regulation taxed (compared to the control condition); …
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From data to model behaviour: A causal and empirical analysis of how data shapes the behaviour of language models
… comparable approaches. Second, I develop a causal framework using the Regression Discontinuity Design to measure tokenisation bias---how vocabulary choices causally affect probability assignments. The analysis reveals that character spans represented as single tokens receive up to 17 times …
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Strategies for dealing with instabilities in a complex, multi-project product development system engineering environment
… constraints. The analysis then uses a risk causal framework to identify the issues that the process faces relative to the cost and schedule risk. The use of this framework identifies staffing issues to be one of the key drivers of cost and schedule risk. A systems dynamic model developed in …
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Spectacle as Myth: Guanxi, the relational and the urban quotidian in contemporary Chinese art (2005-2008)
… context and its identification of a more complex causal framework influencing fine art discourses globally. The principle has been to reconstitute the idea of the Orient, in this case China, as a significant Other, not at the periphery of Western culture but with equal stature in terms of …
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Testing, runtime verification, and analysis of concurrent programs
… The first two techniques are the IMUnit framework for enforcing testing schedules and the EnforceMOP system for enforcing runtime properties for multithreaded programs. An experimental evaluation shows that our techniques can enforce thread schedules and runtime properties effectively and …
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Towards causality in gene regulatory network inference
… from single-cell data. Firstly, we present a framework for enhancing the detection of statistical associations in small sample size settings for gene regulatory network inference. We then describe the use of single-cell genetic perturbation screens for determining the causal roles of critical …
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Changing times : an Iivestigation in probabilistic temporal reasoning
… useful for belief revision in the probabilistic framework presented here. The present formalism integrates the above notions within a causal framework. This formalism is used in conjunction with Bayesian networks to perform probabilistic reasoning. We also use the formalism in conjunction with an …
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ESSAYS ON NONPARAMETRIC ESTIMATION OF HETEROGENEOUS CAUSAL EFFECTS
… strategies for the distribution of heterogeneous causal effects with applications to labor economics and macroeconomics. \par In the first chapter, I propose a nonparametric strategy to identify the distribution of heterogeneous causal effects. A set of identifying restrictions proposed in this …
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Approaches to action
… of action that the acts of an agent are causally derived. Yet, there is still dispute regarding the exact nature of the causation. This disagreement is reflected in the differences between the identity theory, functionalism, and eliminative materialism. The identity theory, as described …
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Modeling and Managing Engineering Changes in a Complex Product Development Process
… to particular system behavior patterns and the causal links between them are identified through the exploratory construction of causal/causal-loop diagrams. To further understand the nature of NPD/ECM problems and verify the key assumptions made in the conceptual causal framework, three field …
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Understanding on-time mortgage payment history in the wake of the 2007 financial crisis: an application of the responsible financial actions index
… of behavior as co-factors within a combined causal framework. Data for this study came from the publicly available, 2009, 2012, and 2015 National Financial Capability Study (NFCS) datasets. These datasets were selected for the specific questions, timeframe, and richness of the financial …
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Representation Learning Based Causal Inference in Observational Studies
… investigates novel statistical approaches for causal effect estimation in observational settings, where controlled experimentation is infeasible and confounding is the main hurdle in estimating causal effect. As such, deconfounding constructs the main subject of this dissertation, that is (i) …
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Essays on the Economics of Labor and Criminal Justice
… a defendants’ recidivism likelihood. Through a causal framework leveraging the quasi-random assignment of review prosecutors to cases in a Californian County, I assess how these severe filing decisions impact defendants differently by age, race, and gender. We find that a more severe filing …
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THE DIRECT EFFECT OF SOCIAL ORIGIN. A SCOPING REVIEW AND TWO COMPARATIVE ANALYSES
… capital. Building on the Blau-Duncan (1967) framework, foundational to current social stratification research, this work addresses persistent questions about why modern societies, despite meritocratic sorting systems, continue to exhibit substantial inequality of opportunity rooted in social …