Iterative automated record linkage using mixture models

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 96, Issue 453, 2001, Pages 32-41

  Larsen, Michael D ^a   Rubin, Donald B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Administrative records; Census; Expectation conditional maximization; Expectation maximization; File matching; Latent class models; Post enumeration survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842816411     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214501750332956     Document Type: Article

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