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Teaching yourself about structural racism will improve your machine learning.

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Robinson, WR; Renson, A; Naimi, AI
Published in: Biostatistics
April 1, 2020

In this commentary, we put forth the following argument: Anyone conducting machine learning in a health-related domain should educate themselves about structural racism. We argue that structural racism is a critical body of knowledge needed for generalizability in almost all domains of health research.

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Biostatistics

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1468-4357

Publication Date

April 1, 2020

Volume

21

Issue

2

Start / End Page

339 / 344

Location

England

Related Subject Headings

  • Statistics & Probability
  • Racism
  • Machine Learning
  • Humans
  • Healthcare Disparities
  • Health Status Disparities
  • Health Services Research
  • Biostatistics
  • Biomedical Research
  • 4905 Statistics
 

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Robinson, W. R., Renson, A., & Naimi, A. I. (2020). Teaching yourself about structural racism will improve your machine learning. Biostatistics, 21(2), 339–344. https://doi.org/10.1093/biostatistics/kxz040
Robinson, Whitney R., Audrey Renson, and Ashley I. Naimi. “Teaching yourself about structural racism will improve your machine learning.Biostatistics 21, no. 2 (April 1, 2020): 339–44. https://doi.org/10.1093/biostatistics/kxz040.
Robinson WR, Renson A, Naimi AI. Teaching yourself about structural racism will improve your machine learning. Biostatistics. 2020 Apr 1;21(2):339–44.
Robinson, Whitney R., et al. “Teaching yourself about structural racism will improve your machine learning.Biostatistics, vol. 21, no. 2, Apr. 2020, pp. 339–44. Pubmed, doi:10.1093/biostatistics/kxz040.
Robinson WR, Renson A, Naimi AI. Teaching yourself about structural racism will improve your machine learning. Biostatistics. 2020 Apr 1;21(2):339–344.
Journal cover image

Published In

Biostatistics

DOI

EISSN

1468-4357

Publication Date

April 1, 2020

Volume

21

Issue

2

Start / End Page

339 / 344

Location

England

Related Subject Headings

  • Statistics & Probability
  • Racism
  • Machine Learning
  • Humans
  • Healthcare Disparities
  • Health Status Disparities
  • Health Services Research
  • Biostatistics
  • Biomedical Research
  • 4905 Statistics