Discrimination discovery in scientific project evaluation: A case study

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Highlights：

• A complex case study about the discovery of gender discrimination is presented.

• Data regards the evaluation of scientific projects from a real call for proposals.

• A novel methodology that couples data mining with statistical validation is proposed and adopted.

• The case study is abstracted to a general KDD process as a guidance for anti-discrimination analysts.

摘要

•A complex case study about the discovery of gender discrimination is presented.•Data regards the evaluation of scientific projects from a real call for proposals.•A novel methodology that couples data mining with statistical validation is proposed and adopted.•The case study is abstracted to a general KDD process as a guidance for anti-discrimination analysts.

论文关键词：Discrimination discovery,Gender bias,Case study,Situation testing,Data mining,KDD process

论文评审过程：Available online 11 May 2013.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2013.05.016