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The Scottish Record Linkage System.
S Kendrick,J Clarke +1 more
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Howard Newcombe, pioneer and founder of probability matching techniques, has illustrated the continuing dialectic between the theory and the practical craft of linkage by being guided by the characteristics and structure of the data sets in question and close empirical attention to the emergent qualities of each linkage.Abstract:
Howard Newcombe, pioneer and founder of probability matching techniques, has illustrated the continuing dialectic between the theory and the practical craft of linkage. From the point of view of the development of record linkage in Scotland his most valuable contribution, beyond his initial formulation of the principles of probability matching, has been his emphasis on being guided by the characteristics and structure of the data sets in question and close empirical attention to the emergent qualities of each linkage (Newcombe et al. 1959; Newcombe, 1988). Particularly inspiring has been his insistence that probability matching is at heart a simple and intuitive process and should not be turned into a highly specialised procedure isolated from the day to day concerns of the organisation in which it is carried out (Newcombe et al. 1986).read more
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A Theory for Record Linkage
Ivan P. Fellegi,Alan B. Sunter +1 more
TL;DR: A mathematical model is developed to provide a theoretical framework for a computer-oriented solution to the problem of recognizing those records in two files which represent identical persons, objects or events.
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Automatic linkage of vital records.
TL;DR: The authors' special interest in the techniques of record linkage relates to their possible use for keeping track of large groups of individuals who have been exposed to low levels of radiation, in order to determine the causes of their eventual deaths.
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The social and obstetric correlates of psychiatric admission in the puerperium.
TL;DR: Computer linkage of obstetric and psychiatric record systems made it possible to identify all women resident in the city of Edinburgh who had given birth to live or stillborn children in 1971-7 and to study the distribution of psychiatric admissions relative to the time of childbirth and the correlates of psychiatric admission in the first 90 days after childbirth.
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The Use of Names for Linking Personal Records
TL;DR: Of the six refinements tested, the recently developed exact approach for calculating the ODDS associated with comparisons of names that are possible synonyms is the most important.
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Age-related bias in probabilistic death searches due to neglect of the “prior likelihoods”
TL;DR: A solution is described, using data from life tables and death statistics, to address major systematic bias when age-specific mortality data are sought through automated searches of large national death files, based on calculated odds in favor of a correct match.