Extracting information from big data: Issues of measurement, inference and linkage

Privacy, Big Data, and the Public Good: Frameworks for Engagement

Volumn 9781107067356, Issue , 2013, Pages 257-275

  Kreuter, Frauke ^a,b   Peng, Roger D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

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EID: 84923533259     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781107590205.016     Document Type: Chapter

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