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A scaling approach to record linkage [PDF]

open access: yesStatistics in Medicine, 2017
With increasing availability of large datasets derived from administrative and other sources, there is an increasing demand for the successful linking of these to provide rich sources of data for further analysis. Variation in the quality of identifiers used to carry out linkage means that existing approaches are often based upon ‘probabilistic’ models,
Harvey Goldstein   +2 more
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Steve Fienberg and Student Research

open access: yesThe Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality, 2018
I was nervous when giving my first presentation to our US Census research group as a young graduate student:  Steve was in the room, and I was not sure if my record linkage research was any good.
Samuel L Ventura
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Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Record linkage has a long tradition in both the statistical and the computer science literature. We survey current approaches to the record linkage problem in a privacy-aware setting and contrast these with the more traditional literature. We also identify several important open questions that pertain to private record linkage from different ...
Rob Hall 0001, Stephen E. Fienberg
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Probabilistic record linkage and an automated procedure to minimize the undecided-matched pair problem [PDF]

open access: yes
Probabilistic record linkage allows the assembling of information from different data sources. In this article, we present a procedure in case a one-to-one relationship between records in different files is expected but is not found only by applying the ...
Carla Jorge Machado, Kenneth Hill
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A Toolbox for Record Linkage

open access: yesAustrian Journal of Statistics, 2016
We developed a record-linkage toolbox in order to compare the performance of various string-similarity measures for German surnames. This ”Matching Tool-Box” (MTB) is made up by independent, highly portable JAVA-programs.
Rainer Schnell   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

What predicts linkage to Surgeon's Certificates for Veterans who entered the Pension System? [PDF]

open access: yes
record linkage; sample selection bias; surgeon's ...
Tayatat Kanjanapipatkul
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A scaleable approach to emissions-innovation record linkage [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This paper reports an approach to linking data on European emitters to data on their innovation practices. We illustrate a straightforward approach to record linkage between the European Union Community Integrated Transaction Log (CITL) and the PATSTAT ...
Huberty, Mark   +2 more
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Privacy preserving linkage using multiple dynamic match keys

open access: yesInternational Journal of Population Data Science, 2019
Introduction Available and practical methods for privacy preserving linkage have shortcomings: methods utilising anonymous linkage codes provide limited accuracy while methods based on Bloom filters have proven vulnerable to frequency-based attacks ...
Sean Randall   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Patterns of Consent: Evidence from a General Household Survey [PDF]

open access: yes
We analyse consent patterns and consent bias in the context of a large general household survey, the 'Improving survey measurement of income and employment' (ISMIE) survey, also addressing issues that arise when there are multiple consent questions ...
Annette Jäckle   +4 more
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Privacy-preserving record linkage using Bloom filters

open access: yesBMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2009
Background Combining multiple databases with disjunctive or additional information on the same person is occurring increasingly throughout research. If unique identification numbers for these individuals are not available, probabilistic record linkage is
Reiher Jörg   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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