Dean Resnick is the Principal Data Scientist at the nonpartisan and objective research organization NORC at the University of Chicago. Dean has conducted record linkage for a variety of projects at NORC. During this Linkage Seminar, Amy O’Hara and Dean discussed the Fellegi-Sunter record linkage paradigm, the use of frequency-based name weights, the use of string-distance comparison weighting, the use of the expectation-maximization algorithm, blocking strategies, and more. In this seminar, Dean provided an overview of these methods and how they have been applied in record linkage projects NORC has conducted.
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