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Activity Number: 344
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 8, 2006 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Quality and Productivity
Abstract - #305372
Title: Methods of Data Quality
Author(s): Thomas Herzog*+ and William E. Winkler and Fritz J. Scheuren
Companies: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and U.S. Census Bureau and National Opinion Research Center
Address: 1630 Autumnwood Drive, Reston, VA, 20194,
Keywords: missing data ; logical restraints on data ; name and address matching
Abstract:

This paper provides an overview of methods of quality. In addition to listing a number of basic data quality tools, it describes the Fellegi-Holt model of statistical data editing (1976) and imputation extensions due to Little and Rubin (2002) and the Fellegi-Sunter model of record linkage (1969). The paper provides a number of applications and examples involving retail establishments, medical and biomedical applications, highway safety, list frames and national registers, social insurance, and financial record systems. A number of the examples and ideas are from a forthcoming textbook by the authors.

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