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wrathtarw t1_j1ocd3y wrote

Reply to comment by pharmaway123 in Machine learning model reliably predicts risk of opioid use disorder for individual patients, that could aid in prevention by marketrent

The same bias that is present in the medical system is then programmed into the algorithm- the way machine learning works is that it essentially condenses information from the source and then uses it to determine the output. Garbage in garbage out…

If the source is flawed so too will the algorithm: https://developer.ibm.com/articles/machine-learning-and-bias/

And the source is flawed: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8344207/

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pharmaway123 t1_j1on8ck wrote

Right, and I'm asking in this specific instance, given the rank ordered feature importance from the study, how would bias impact the results from this model, concretely.

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wrathtarw t1_j1onilg wrote

Sorry- reddit karma doesn’t pay enough to do that analysis for you;

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pharmaway123 t1_j1oqzaz wrote

Yeah, I figured it was just a nice sound bite without any actual thought behind it. Thanks for confirming.

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