The effect of data cleaning on record linkage quality
Open Access
- 5 June 2013
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
- Vol. 13 (1) , 1-64
Abstract
Within the field of record linkage, numerous data cleaning and standardisation techniques are employed to ensure the highest quality of links. While these facilities are common in record linkage software packages and are regularly deployed across record linkage units, little work has been published demonstrating the impact of data cleaning on linkage quality.Keywords
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