A machine learning approach to predict ethnicity using personal name and census location in Canada

Background Canada is an ethnically-diverse country, yet its lack of ethnicity information in many large databases impedes effective population research and interventions. Automated ethnicity classification using machine learning has shown potential to address this data gap but its performance in Can...

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Main Authors: Kai On Wong, Osmar R. Zaïane, Faith G. Davis, Yutaka Yasui, Sreeram V. Ramagopalan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7673495/?tool=EBI