Identifying Likely Duplicates by Record Linkage in a Survey of Prostitutes
Published in: Applied Bayesian modeling and causal inference from incomplete-data perspectives: an essential journey with Donald Rubin's statistical family / edited by Andres Gleman, Xiao-Li Meng (Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2004) p. 319-339
Posted on RAND.org on January 01, 2004
This chapter discusses concerns about duplicates in an anonymous survey, general frameworks for record linkage, and estimating probabilities of duplication in the Los Angeles Women's Health Risk Study (LAWHRS).
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