TY  - JOUR
T1  - A Bayesian Approach to Graphical Record Linkage and Deduplication
JF  - Journal of the American Statistical Association
Y1  - 2016
A1  - Rebecca C. Steorts
A1  - Rob Hall
A1  - Stephen E. Fienberg
AB  - ABSTRACTWe propose an unsupervised approach for linking records across arbitrarily many files, while simultaneously detecting duplicate records within files. Our key innovation involves the representation of the pattern of links between records as a bipartite graph, in which records are directly linked to latent true individuals, and only indirectly linked to other records. This flexible representation of the linkage structure naturally allows us to estimate the attributes of the unique observable people in the population, calculate transitive linkage probabilities across records (and represent this visually), and propagate the uncertainty of record linkage into later analyses. Our method makes it particularly easy to integrate record linkage with post-processing procedures such as logistic regression, capture–recapture, etc. Our linkage structure lends itself to an efficient, linear-time, hybrid Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm, which overcomes many obstacles encountered by previously record linkage approaches, despite the high-dimensional parameter space. We illustrate our method using longitudinal data from the National Long Term Care Survey and with data from the Italian Survey on Household and Wealth, where we assess the accuracy of our method and show it to be better in terms of error rates and empirical scalability than other approaches in the literature. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.
VL  - 111
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2015.1105807
ER  - 

TY  - JOUR
T1  - On estimation of mean squared errors of benchmarked and empirical bayes estimators
JF  - Statistica Sinica
Y1  - 2013
A1  - Rebecca C. Steorts
A1  - Malay Ghosh
VL  - 23
ER  - 

TY  - JOUR
T1  - Two-stage Bayesian benchmarking as applied to small area estimation
JF  - TEST
Y1  - 2013
A1  - Rebecca C. Steorts
A1  - Malay Ghosh
KW  - small area estimation
VL  - 22
IS  - 4
ER  - 

TY  - CONF
T1  - On Estimation of Mean Squared Errors of Benchmarked and Empirical Bayes Estimators
T2  - 2012 Joint Statistical Meetings
Y1  - 2012
A1  - Rebecca C. Steorts
A1  - Malay Ghosh
JF  - 2012 Joint Statistical Meetings
CY  - San Diego, CA
ER  -