Data Quality and Record Linkage Techniques

• Main Authors: Herzog, Thomas N. (Author), Scheuren, Fritz J. (Author), Winkler, William E. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2007.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Data structures (Computer science).; Database management.; Statistics.; Computer Science.; Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory.; Database Management.; Statistical Theory and Methods.; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law.

This book helps practitioners gain a deeper understanding, at an applied level, of the issues involved in improving data quality through editing, imputation, and record linkage. The first part of the book deals with methods and models. Here, we focus on the Fellegi-Holt edit-imputation model, the Li...