clinicalfair: Algorithmic Fairness Assessment for Clinical Prediction Models

Post-hoc fairness auditing toolkit for clinical prediction models. Unlike in-processing approaches that modify model training, this package evaluates existing models by computing group-wise fairness metrics (demographic parity, equalized odds, predictive parity, calibration disparity), visualizing disparities across protected attributes, and performing threshold-based mitigation. Supports intersectional analysis across multiple attributes and generates audit reports useful for fairness-oriented auditing in clinical AI settings. Methods described in Obermeyer et al. (2019) <doi:10.1126/science.aax2342> and Hardt, Price, and Srebro (2016) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.1610.02413>.

Version: 0.1.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports: cli (≥ 3.4.0), dplyr (≥ 1.1.0), ggplot2 (≥ 3.4.0), rlang (≥ 1.1.0), stats, tibble (≥ 3.1.0)
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), withr
Published: 2026-04-02
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.clinicalfair (may not be active yet)
Author: Cuiwei Gao [aut, cre, cph]
Maintainer: Cuiwei Gao <48gaocuiwei at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/CuiweiG/clinicalfair/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/CuiweiG/clinicalfair
NeedsCompilation: no
Language: en-US
Citation: clinicalfair citation info
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: clinicalfair results

Documentation:

Reference manual: clinicalfair.html , clinicalfair.pdf
Vignettes: Algorithmic fairness assessment with clinicalfair (source, R code)

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Package source: clinicalfair_0.1.0.tar.gz
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