Match quality of a linkage strategy based on the combined use of a statistical linkage key and the Levenshtein distance to link birth to death records in Brazil.
ABSTRACT Objectives To assess the match quality of a linkage strategy based on the combined use of a statistical linkage key and the Levenshtein distance to link birth to death records in Brazil. Approach First we evaluated the discrimination power of a statistical linkage key adapted from the Au...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Swansea University
2017-04-01
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Series: | International Journal of Population Data Science |
Online Access: | https://ijpds.org/article/view/53 |