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Record Linkage Articles, Software and Related Information
submitted by
Sigurd Hermansen
Email: HERMANS1@WESTAT.COM
and Charles Patridge
Email: Charles_S_Patridge@prodigy.net

www.the-link-king.com I offer a free download of integrated probabilistic and deterministic software as SAS/AF application - By Kevin Campbell.
See Tim Churches' brief but pithy summary of record linkage methods in Appendix A of
http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/gestalt_manifesto_full_097.html#Appendix%20A:20Probabilistic%20Record%20Linkage
Bill Winkler's latest article will give you all of the record linkage theory that you will need for a while. - see
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/255199.html )
LINKPRO software - see
http://members.shaw.ca/andre.wajda/linkpro.html
Charles Patridge's paper on Fuzzy merge/match - see
http://www.sas.com/service/doc/periodicals/obs/obswww15/index.html
More articles and white papers on Data Mining/Cleansing/Matching/Linking etc. - see
http://www.sconsig.com/e-scrub.htm
A link to... Descriptions of probabilistic linking routines -- The SAS routines used in the prototype data base are available here. These programs may be useful to agencies that are developing their own linking systems.
http://www.samhsa.gov/2000archive/centers/csat/idbse/base.asp
paper 32 at SUGI 22 - Markku Suni
paper - NESUG 2000 - Fuzzy htmSQL by Myles Powers
paper - NESUG 2000 - Using Fuzzy Merge by Helen-Jean Talbott
paper - NESUG 2000 - Seeking, Mapping, and Fuzzy Merging by Haftan Eckholdt
Tip 00000 of SCONSIG Tips and Techniques
Tip 00149 of SCONSIG Tips and Techniques
Tip 00201 of SCONSIG Tips and Techniques
Tip 00202 of SCONSIG Tips and Techniques
Background information about record linkage or data cleaning is available at www.niss.org/dqworkshop.html
http://www.civilsolutions.com.au/publications/dedup.htm
http://www.nahdo.org/hidsc/linkage.htm
http://www.fcsm.gov/spwptbco.html
Items submitted by Mike Zdeb (email: msz03@health.state.ny.us):

home.iprimus.com.au/agwm (LinkageWiz)
www.burgoyne.com/pages/bdespain/genlink/rlg-toc.htm (Record Linkage in Genealogy)
codes.med.utah.edu/datalinkage/datalinkage.htm

If you have more info please submit, and I will append this page with your input. Thanks.
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