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Who Are You? Bayesian Prediction of Racial Category Using Surname and Geolocation
Thanks for the bug fix for the census tables. Because the correct 2010 tabes for age and sex by race are only available at the tract level and up (the...
I'm working on an analysis with data of adults in a diverse metro. I'm worried that my results are overestimating the Latino population (which tend to be younger in this...
Hi, First of all, thank you for creating this amazing package! I have a question about the `predict_race` function. When I use it, I sometimes get a message saying "N...
I am imputing the race of individuals in a relatively large dataset (100,000+ observations) using first name, surname, and county. For around 40 observations, the function _predict_race()_ returned _NaN_. I...
Hello, I updated from WRU 0.1-12 to WRU 1.0.1 so I could update the probabilities in our CA voter files with 2020 census data. When comparing the new probabilities (using...
There are special tracts (often with tract id codes in the 98---- range) that denote low population areas like airports, water bodies, parks, etc (census documentation here https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/partnerships/psap/G-650.pdf). People can...
The new version of wru has a progress bar for use with collection of census data. I am running the analysis in batch mode on our computing cluster and the...
Electronic medical records generally are missing race and ethnicity data for most patients that are in the system. Because of an interest in understanding health outcomes disparities, imputing these data...