Session 10: Probabilistic Record Linking
- Assigned Readings and Materials
- Fellegi and Suntner, "A
Theory for Record Linkage," JASA, 1969
- Jaro, Matthew. "Advances
in Record-Linkage Methodology as Applied to Matching the 1985 Census of
Tampa, Florida." Journal of the American Statistical Association,
1989
- Winkler, William, "Record
Linkage Software and Methods for Merging Administrative Lists."
7/23/2001
- Abowd, John and Lars Vilhuber,
"The Sensitivity of Economic Statistics
to Coding Errors in Personal Identifiers." (JSTOR link)
- Assigned Tasks
- Background Materials
-
Winkler (1995),
"Matching and Record Linkage," in B.G. Cox et. al. (ed.), Business
Survey Methods, New York, J. Wiley, 355-384
- Using Probabilistic Record Linking for disclosure avoidance in the SIPP Synthetic Beta (Main paper) (Disclosure avoidance review memo)
- Library of comparators (Java library, but independently useful)
- R package for probabilistic matching
- Lahiri, P. & Larsen, M.D. (2005), "Regression Analysis with Linked Data", JASA, Vol. 100(469), pp. 222 - 230 (JSTOR copy)
