A note on using the F-measure for evaluating record linkage algorithms

Record linkage is the process of identifying and linking records about the same entities from one or more databases. Record linkage can be viewed as a classification problem where the aim is to decide whether a pair of records is a match (i.e. two records refer to the same real-world entity) or a no...

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Published in:	Statistics and computing Vol. 28; no. 3; pp. 539 - 547
Main Authors:	Hand, David, Christen, Peter
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	New York Springer US 01.05.2018 Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:	Artificial Intelligence Classification Ground truth Information retrieval Machine learning Mathematics and Statistics Probability and Statistics in Computer Science Quality assessment Recall Statistical Theory and Methods Statistics Statistics and Computing/Statistics Programs Recall Precision Class imbalance Entity resolution Classification Data linkage
ISSN:	0960-3174, 1573-1375
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