record linkage
Aspects of record linkage
... The matches used in the generation of name pairs are assumed to be accurate, therefore the name pairs could be assumed to be genuine variants. Unfortunately, the latter as- sumption does not hold for two reasons. First, ...
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Efficient private record linkage of very large datasets
... Privacy preserving record linkage for very large files requires blocking methods to re- duce the number of comparisons. Here, the use of Multibit Trees has been suggested. Multibit Trees perform well for ...
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Record linkage research and informed consent: who consents?
... to linkage of survey data with medical or admin- istrative records ...though record linkage studies conducted in Asia play an increasingly important role in medical and health ...
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Technical challenges of providing record linkage services for research
... of linkage projects increase, SLUs need robust, efficient methods of managing all forms of ...in record linkage); outgoing data (i.e. the linkage keys that are subsequently delivered to ...
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Randomized Response and Balanced Bloom Filters for Privacy Preserving Record Linkage
... differential linkage error [8], [9]. Hence, a differential linkage error may result in biased estimates of causal effects and population parameters [10], ...differential linkage bias is improving the ...
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Privacy-preserving record linkage using Bloom filters
... "record linkage" have been published over the last 10 ..."record linkage" than on the com- bination of "survey" and ...of record linkage ...probabilistic ...
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A practical approach for incorporating dependence among fields in probabilistic record linkage
... Various methods have been proposed to address the lack of conditional independence in latent class models for record linkage. For example, Tromp et al. incorporated conditional dependence between two fields ...
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Group based Self Training for E Commerce Product Record Linkage
... Overall performance comparison. To test the performance under weak supervision, we first set the seed number to 30, which nearly takes up a proportion of 5% of the labeled data. We present the results of different methods ...
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Counteracting Bloom Filter Encoding Techniques for Private Record Linkage
... Some of the most widely used SMC techniques in context of secure record linkage are: secure sum, secure set union, secure set intersection and secure scalar product [74, 96]. Atallah et al. [9] propose an ...
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Adaptive and Flexible Blocking for Record Linkage Tasks
... One of the main problems in data integration is to identify in the files to be integrated, records that match the same entity in the real world. In this context, an entity may be a company, individual or any other real ...
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Cryptanalysis of Basic Bloom Filters Used for Privacy Preserving Record Linkage
... Linking databases containing information on individual characteristics and behavior is of increasing scientific and commercial interest. In many applications, linking databases has to be done without a unique personal ...
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Assessing record linkage between health care and Vital Statistics databases using deterministic methods
... probabilistic linkage maximizes linkage theo- retically but may result in uncertainty for some potential ...correct linkage depends on the amount of personal identifying information available on the ...
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The effect of data cleaning on record linkage quality
... A linkage with a high precision will have few false positives; similarly a linkage with high recall will have few false ...a linkage is the harmonic mean between precision and ...for record ...
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Accuracy of death certification and hospital record linkage for identification of incident stroke
... through record linkage with two routinely collected data sources: death certification and hospital record ...hospital record linkage data (ENCORE – East Norfolk COmmission ...
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Risk of fractures in patients with multiple sclerosis: record-linkage study
... We used the complete dataset of English national Hos- pital Episode Statistics (HES) (1999 – 2010) covering the population of England of about 50 million people. Death data derive from death certificates. The dataset ...
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Using record linkage to monitor equity and variation in screening programmes
... The record linkage methodology enabled the records of almost 40,000 of those invited for screening to be analysed at an individual level, exceeding the largest published sur- vey by a factor of ...
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Using metric space indexing for complete and efficient record linkage
... query record q; nearest-neighbour(q), returning the record with smallest distance to q; and nearest-n(q,n), returning the n closest records to ...a record being indexed, a pointer to its par- ent, ...
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Stepwise Variable Selection for Loglinear Mixture in Record Linkage
... in record linkage with focus on the loglinear mixture model of two components, each for the matched and unmatched pairs ...the record linkage case study in 2006 Annual Meeting of Statistical ...
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A Scalable Blocking Framework for Multidatabase Privacy-preserving Record Linkage
... • The applicability of multi-bit tree data structures as a blocking mechanism was explored by Schnell [188] for PPRL. The multi-bit tree data structure was pro- posed by Kristensen et al. [129] to efficiently find ...
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Detecting referral and selection bias by the anonymous linkage of practice, hospital and clinic data using Secure and Private Record Linkage (SAPREL): case study from the evaluation of the Improved Access to Psychological Therapy (IAPT) service
... The Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme is a Department of Health (DH) quality improvement initiative [8]. The DH also com- missioned a comprehensive evaluation of the IAPT pro- gramme, which ...
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