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Disparate Impact

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For Predictor Y and Sensitive Impact S. Definition 6.2 Disparate Impact (DI) = P[Yˆ = 1 | S != 1]/P[Yˆ = 1 | S = 1]

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Classifications

Entity Type

Metric100%manual revieweval-seeds-v0.3-2026-05-14

Sensitivity

Regulated75%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Information Class

Pii68%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Variants

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Disparate Impacts
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Disparate Impact's
pluralpossessive
Disparate Impacts'

Framework definitions

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For Predictor Y and Sensitive Impact S. Definition 6.2 Disparate Impact (DI) = P[Yˆ = 1 | S != 1]/P[Yˆ = 1 | S = 1]

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