Fairer grants system for 1987?

Fairer citation-based metrics

I describe a simple modification which can be applied to any citation count-based index (e.g. Hirsch’s h-index) quantifying a researcher’s publication output. The key idea behind the proposed approach is that the merit for the citations of a paper should be distributed amongst its authors according to their relative contributions. In addition to producing inherently fairer metrics I show that t...

Financial Reform: Making the System Safer and Fairer

Fairer and more accurate, but for whom?

Complex statistical machine learning models are increasingly being used or considered for use in highstakes decision-making pipelines in domains such as €nancial services, health care, criminal justice and human services. Œese models are o‰en investigated as possible improvements over more classical tools such as regression models or human judgement. While the modeling approach may be new, the ...

A fairer deal for pneumococcal vaccination.

To the Editor: All doctors in private practice should be well aware that the National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme is a clear and inevitable danger. To judge from the comments of ANC luminaries, the government will probably do its usual bull-in-a-china-shop act by ramming the bill through parliament without much regard for the opinions of other stakeholders. And if the government's past form i...

A Regression Approach to Fairer Grading

In this paper, we consider an issue of great interest to all students: fairness in grading. Specifically, we represent each grade as a student’s intrinsic (overall) aptitude minus a correction representing the course’s inherent difficulty plus a statistical error. We consider two statistical methods for assigning an aptitude to each student and, simultaneously, a measure of difficulty to each c...