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. 2024 Aug 20;3:e55820. doi: 10.2196/55820

Table 7.

The details of implementing bias mitigation for the neural network model using stochastic gradient descent.

Sociodemographic conditions Optimal threshold Recall Specificity Accuracy Differencea
Sex 18.40


1.08 b

Male
85.71 c 58.99 59.12

Female
85.19 58.43 58.63
Marital status 24.10


3.69

Never been married
76.47 87.13 87.07

Other groups of marital status
75.00 89.35 89.25
Working condition 24.50


15.22

Working >35 hours
66.67 95.01 94.91

Other groups of working condition
71.88 85.00 84.90
Race 18.40


26.60

White
89.66 58.64 58.85

Black
66.67 62.25 62.27
Income 17.30


8.89

An income of <US $20,000
90.00 44.83 45.28

Other groups of income
87.10 50.82 51.02

aDifference between recall and specificity after bias mitigation.

bItalicized values indicate an improvement compared to the initial values (50% threshold).