Data Quality and Record Linkage Techniques
Data Quality and Record Linkage Techniques

Author: Thomas N. Herzog

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-05-23

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0387695052

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This book offers a practical understanding of issues involved in improving data quality through editing, imputation, and record linkage. The first part of the book deals with methods and models, focusing on the Fellegi-Holt edit-imputation model, the Little-Rubin multiple-imputation scheme, and the Fellegi-Sunter record linkage model. The second part presents case studies in which these techniques are applied in a variety of areas, including mortgage guarantee insurance, medical, biomedical, highway safety, and social insurance as well as the construction of list frames and administrative lists. This book offers a mixture of practical advice, mathematical rigor, management insight and philosophy.

Data-Driven Policy Impact Evaluation
Data-Driven Policy Impact Evaluation

Author: Nuno Crato

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-10-02

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 3319784617

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In the light of better and more detailed administrative databases, this open access book provides statistical tools for evaluating the effects of public policies advocated by governments and public institutions. Experts from academia, national statistics offices and various research centers present modern econometric methods for an efficient data-driven policy evaluation and monitoring, assess the causal effects of policy measures and report on best practices of successful data management and usage. Topics include data confidentiality, data linkage, and national practices in policy areas such as public health, education and employment. It offers scholars as well as practitioners from public administrations, consultancy firms and nongovernmental organizations insights into counterfactual impact evaluation methods and the potential of data-based policy and program evaluation.

Data Fusion and Perception
Data Fusion and Perception

Author: Giacomo Della Riccia

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-05-04

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 3709125804

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This work is a collection of front-end research papers on data fusion and perceptions. Authors are leading European experts of Artificial Intelligence, Mathematical Statistics and/or Machine Learning. Area overlaps with "Intelligent Data Analysis”, which aims to unscramble latent structures in collected data: Statistical Learning, Model Selection, Information Fusion, Soccer Robots, Fuzzy Quantifiers, Emotions and Artifacts.