This overview gives background on a number of statistical methods that have been proven
effective for record linkage. To prepare data for the main computational algorithms, we need …

The widespread availability of powerful geocoding tools in commercial GIS software and the
interest in spatial analysis at the individual level have made address geocoding a widely …

This chapter provides an overview of the data matching process, and describes the five
major steps involved in this process: data pre-processing (cleaning and standardisation) …

The rapid growth of the Web in the past two decades has made it the largest publicly
accessible data source in the world. Web mining aims to discover useful information or …

The increasing availability of large administrative databases for research has led to a
dramatic rise in the use of data linkage. The speed and accuracy of linkage have much …

In this article, we address the problem of reference disambiguation. Specifically, we consider
a situation where entities in the database are referred to using descriptions (eg, a set of …

In this paper we address the problem of reference disambiguation. Specifically, we consider
a situation where entities in the database are referred to using descriptions (eg, a set of …

This article describes a new initiative at the Minnesota Population Center (MPC) to create
linked representative samples of individuals and family groups from the censuses of 1860 …

Background Record linkage of existing individual health care data is an efficient way to
answer important epidemiological research questions. Reuse of individual health-related …

Record linkage is the process of determining that two records refer to the same entity. A key
subprocess is evaluating how well the individual fields, or attributes, of the records match …