Identifying Likely Duplicates by Record Linkage in a Survey of Prostitutes

Thomas R. Belin, Hemant Ishwaran, Naihua Duan, Sandra H. Berry, David E. Kanouse

ResearchPosted on rand.org 2004Published 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

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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  • Availability: Non-RAND
  • Year: 2004
  • Pages: 21
  • Document Number: EP-200400-12

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