Strategy and art in automated death searches

H.B. Newcombe

American Journal of Public Health, 1984, vol. 74, issue 12, 1302-1303

Abstract: The art of record linkage, as distinct from the theory and general strategy, lies in the choice of the specifics of any refinements. The designer of a linkage procedure wishing to introduce refinements must inevitably explore the options empirically, and quantitatively in some detail using acutal data, before deciding upon some optimum simplification. Although the practice of this art is laborious, experience has shown that substantial improvements in overall discriminating power can, in fact, be achieved as a result of the fine tuning that is possible when the intuitive insights gained from dealing manually with the more difficult linkages are tested quantitatively and used to modify the machine procedures.

Date: 1984
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