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		Longitudinal Bias Auditing for Sequential Decision Systems //
		Provides tools for detecting, quantifying, and visualizing
		algorithmic bias as a longitudinal process in repeated decision
		systems. Existing fairness metrics treat bias as a single-
		period snapshot; this package operationalizes the view that
		bias in sequential systems must be measured over time.
		Implements group-specific decision-rate trajectories,
		standardized disparity measures analogous to the standardized
		mean difference (Cohen, 1988, ISBN:0-8058-0283-5), cumulative
		bias burden, Markov-based transition disparity (recovery and
		retention gaps), and a dynamic amplification index that
		quantifies whether prior decisions compound current group
		inequality. The amplification framework extends longitudinal
		causal inference ideas from Robins (1986)
		doi:10.1016/0270-0255(86)90088-6 and the sequential decision-
		process perspective in the fairness literature (see
		https://fairmlbook.org) to the audit setting. Covariate-
		adjusted trajectories are estimated via logistic regression,
		generalized additive models (Wood, 2017,
		doi:10.1201/9781315370279), or generalized linear mixed models
		(Bates, 2015, doi:10.18637/jss.v067.i01). Uncertainty
		quantification uses the cluster bootstrap (Cameron, 2008,
		doi:10.1162/rest.90.3.414).
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