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BRcal: An R Package to Boldness-Recalibrate Probability Predictions

20 Sep 2024arXiv:2409.13858links table onlyarchive 2025-07-28

Adeline P. Guthrie, Christopher T. Franck

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When probability predictions are too cautious for decision making, boldness-recalibration enables responsible emboldening while maintaining the probability of calibration required by the user. We formulate boldness-recalibration as a nonlinear optimization of boldness with a nonlinear inequality constraint on calibration. We further show that recalibration based on the maximized linear log odds likelihood also maximizes the posterior probability of calibration. We introduce BRcal, an R package implementing boldness-recalibration and supporting methodology as recently proposed. The BRcal package provides direct control of the calibration-boldness tradeoff and visualizes how different calibration levels change individual predictions. We present a new real world case study involving housing foreclosure predictions. The BRcal package is available on the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/BRcal/index.html) and on Github (https://github.com/apguthrie/BRcal).

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