Who's Who in Patents. A Bayesian approach

Lorenzo Cassi and Nicolas Carayol

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Abstract: This paper proposes a bayesian methodology to treat the who's who problem arising in individual level data sets such as patent data. We assess the usefullness of this methodology on the set of all French inventors appearing on EPO applications from 1978 to 2003.

Keywords: Patents; homonymy; Bayes rule (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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