Validating Synthetic Longitudinal Populations for evaluation of Population Data Linkage

Background ’Gold-standard’ data to evaluate linkage algorithms are rare. Synthetic data have the advantage that all the true links are known. In the domain of population reconstruction, the ability to synthesize populations on demand, with varying characteristics, allows a linkage approach to be eva...

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Main Authors: Tom Dalton, Graham Kirby, Alan Dearle, Özgür Akgün, Monique Mackenzie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Swansea University 2018-06-01
Series:International Journal of Population Data Science
Online Access:https://ijpds.org/article/view/504