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ArticleJournal of the American Statistical Association2023

Multifile Partitioning for Record Linkage and Duplicate Detection.

Serge Aleshin-Guendel, Mauricio Sadinle

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Article in Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Dependence-Robust Confidence Intervals for Capture-Recapture Surveys.Journal of survey statistics and methodology · 2023
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  4. A scaling approach to record linkage.Statistics in medicine · 2017
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Serge Aleshin-GuendelDepartment of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195.
Mauricio SadinleDepartment of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195.

Funding

Multifile probabilistic record linkage for drug overdose surveillance and public health actionR21DA051756 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI HOOD, JULIA ELIZABETH, SADINLE GARCIA-RUIZ, MAURICIO · 2020 to 2021
$408k
NIDA NIH HHS R21 DA051756
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Merging datafiles containing information on overlapping sets of entities is a challenging task in the absence of unique identifiers, and is further complicated when some entities are duplicated in the datafiles. Most approaches to this problem have focused on linking two files assumed to be free of duplicates, or on detecting which records in a single file are duplicates. However, it is common in practice to encounter scenarios that fit somewhere in between or beyond these two settings. We propose a Bayesian approach for the general setting of multifile record linkage and duplicate detection. We use a novel partition representation to propose a structured prior for partitions that can incorporate prior information about the data collection processes of the datafiles in a flexible manner, and extend previous models for comparison data to accommodate the multifile setting. We also introduce a family of loss functions to derive Bayes estimates of partitions that allow uncertain portions of the partitions to be left unresolved. The performance of our proposed methodology is explored through extensive simulations.

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data matchingdata mergingentity resolutionmicroclustering

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PMID37771512
PMCPMC10530869

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