dsld: Data Science Looks at Discrimination
Statistical and graphical tools for exploring group differences and possible discrimination related to sensitive attributes such as race, gender, and age. Includes adjusted group comparisons, matching, distribution plots, and prediction methods that constrain sensitive-attribute influence or deweight selected predictors. Cross-validation supports comparison of prediction error and sensitive-attribute associations. Methods and teaching examples are described by Mittal et al. (2025) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2411.04228>. Interfaces to the R implementation are also available for 'Python'.
| Version: | 2.0.0 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 3.5.0), fairml, gtools, regtools, qeML, rmarkdown |
| Imports: | Kendall, ranger, ggplot2, plotly, freqparcoord, sandwich |
| Suggests: | knitr, bnlearn, Matching, randomForest, cccp, CVXR |
| Published: | 2026-10-25 |
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.dsld |
| Author: | Norm Matloff 
[aut],
Taha Abdullah [aut],
Arjun Ashok [aut],
Shubhada Martha [aut],
Aditya Mittal [aut, cre],
Billy Ouattara [aut],
Jonathan Tran [aut],
Brandon Zarate Estrada [aut] |
| Maintainer: | Aditya Mittal <mittalaa at uci.edu> |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/matloff/dsld/issues |
| License: | GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)] |
| URL: | https://github.com/matloff/dsld |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| Materials: | README, NEWS |
| CRAN checks: | dsld results |
Documentation:
| Reference manual: | dsld.html , dsld.pdf |
| Vignettes: |
Function List (source, R code) Quick Start (source, R code) |
Downloads:
| Package source: | dsld_2.0.0.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: not available, r-release: dsld_2.0.0.zip, r-oldrel: dsld_2.0.0.zip |
| macOS binaries: | r-release (arm64): dsld_2.0.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): dsld_2.0.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): dsld_2.0.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): dsld_2.0.0.tgz |
| Old sources: | dsld archive |
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