Table 10.
The details of implementing bias mitigation for the neural network model using Adam after matching.
| Sociodemographic conditions | Optimal threshold | Recall | Specificity | Accuracy | Differencea | |
| Sex | 66.60 |
|
|
|
1.85 b | |
|
|
Male |
|
50.00 | 97.88 | 97.68 |
|
|
|
Female |
|
51.85 | 97.88 | 97.49 |
|
| Marital status | 18.60 |
|
|
|
0.79 | |
|
|
Never been married |
|
88.24 | 88.36 | 88.36 |
|
|
|
Other groups of marital status |
|
87.50 | 88.31 | 88.30 |
|
| Working condition | 33.80 |
|
|
|
9.92 | |
|
|
Working ≥35 hours |
|
77.78 | 93.33 | 93.24 |
|
|
|
Other groups of working condition |
|
68.75 | 94.22 | 94.06 |
|
| Race | 19.90 |
|
|
|
25.92 | |
|
|
White |
|
89.66 | 88.27 | 88.28 |
|
|
|
Black |
|
66.67 | 91.20 | 91.07 |
|
| Income | 68.00 |
|
|
|
3.19 | |
|
|
An income of <US $20,000 |
|
50.00 | 97.00 | 96.79 |
|
|
|
Other groups of income |
|
51.61 | 98.58 | 98.25 |
|
aDifference between recall and specificity after bias mitigation.
bItalicized values indicate an improvement compared with the initial values (50% threshold).