Predict ethnicity from names. — predict

Predict ethnicity either by last names or both first and last names. This is the default and recommended method for prediction.

predict_ethnicity(
  firstnames = NULL,
  lastnames = NULL,
  method = "fullname",
  threads = 0,
  na.rm = FALSE
)

Arguments

firstnames: A character vector of first names. Default to NULL. Only use this if you are using 'method' = 'fullname'.
lastnames: A character vector of last names. Default to NULL. Use this in both 'fullname' and 'lastname' methods.
method: "fullname" or "lastname". Inference method to choose from.
threads: single integer. Number of threads to use for multi-threading.
na.rm: TRUE or FALSE (bool). If TRUE, then the NAs will be removed; if FALSE, then return error if there is NA in the arguments.

Value

data.frame with probability of being each ethnic group and the predicted group (one with highest probability)

Examples

predict_ethnicity(firstnames = "Alan", lastnames = "Turing")
#>   firstname lastname prob_asian prob_black prob_hispanic prob_white  race
#> 1      Alan   Turing 0.02842531  0.2051059    0.02074103  0.7457278 white