Why Probabilistic Linkage is More Accurate than Fuzzy Matching or Term Frequency based approaches

How effectively do different approaches to record linkage use information in the records to make predictions?

A pervasive data quality problem is to have multiple different records that refer to the same entity but no unique identifier that ties these entities together.

In the absence of a unique identifier such as a Social Security number, we can use a combination of individually non-unique variables such as name, …

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