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This is the preliminary program for the 2007 Joint Statistical
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The views expressed here are those of the individual authors and not necessarily those of the ASA or its board, officers, or staff. Back to main JSM 2007 Program page |
= Applied Session,
= Theme Session,
= Presenter| CE_13C | Sun, 7/29/07, 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM | CC-151 D-F |
| Data Quality and Record Linkage Techniques - Continuing Education - Course | ||
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| Instructor(s): Thomas Herzog, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fritz Scheuren, NORC at the University of Chicago, William Winkler, U.S. Census Bureau | ||
| This course is based on the 2007 Springer book entitled Data Quality and Record Linkage Techniques. The course will provide a mixture of practical advice, mathematical rigor, management insight and philosophy. The intended audience is the working analyst, whether he or she is a survey statistician, census taken or business consultant. Our approach is to employ real life examples. Most illustrations come out of our successful practice. A few are contrived to make a point. Sometimes they come out of failed experience, ours and others. A main goal of the course is to aid practitioners to achieve a deeper understanding, at an applied level, of the issues involved in improving data quality through editing, imputation, and record linkage. The course begins with examples of quality successes and failures, motivating the techniques to be gone over in depth later. Basic editing techniques are discussed next, beginning with a short history but with more advanced editing and imputation techniques being covered as well. The heart of the course is our presentation of record linkage techniques. These, unlike most editing and imputation techniques, often can lead to real data quality improvements, rather than just mitigating the negative consequences of data errors. Course attendees are strongly encouraged to acquire and review textbook before attending course. Recommended Textbook: Herzog, Thomas N., Scheuren, F., Winkler, W. (2007) Data Quality and Record Linkage Techniques. Springer. ISBN: 978-0-387-69502-0 | ||
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JSM 2007
For information, contact jsm@amstat.org
or phone (888) 231-3473. If you have questions about the Continuing Education program,
please contact the Education Department. |