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Author(s) -
Herzog Thomas H.,
Scheuren Fritz,
Winkler William E.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
wiley interdisciplinary reviews: computational statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.693
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1939-0068
pISSN - 1939-5108
DOI - 10.1002/wics.108
Subject(s) - computer science , linkage (software) , identifier , smoothing , matching (statistics) , data mining , information retrieval , statistics , mathematics , biology , programming language , biochemistry , gene , computer vision
This article describes methods for matching duplicates within or across files using non‐unique identifiers such as first name, last name, date of birth, address, and other characteristics. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. This article is categorized under: Statistical and Graphical Methods of Data Analysis > Data Reduction, Smoothing, and Filtering