3 papers
stat.ME2026
Designing Ambiguity-Aware Clerical Review: A Stratified Sampling Framework for Record Linkage and Deduplication
Joseph Lam, Amaia Imaz Blanco, Efrosini Setakis +6
Clerical review of candidate record pairs remains the de facto gold standard for evaluating record linkage, but it is resource-intensive and often designed informally. We propose a…
stat.ME2026
Cluster-based name embeddings reduce ethnic disparities in record linkage quality under realistic name corruption: evidence from the North Carolina Voter Registry
Joseph Lam, Mario Cortina-Borja, Rob Aldridge +2
Differential ethnic-based record linkage errors can bias epidemiologic estimates. Prior evidence often conflates heterogeneity in error mechanisms with unequal exposure to error. U…
cs.CL2024
Decolonising Data Systems: Using Jyutping or Pinyin as tonal representations of Chinese names for data linkage
Joseph Lam, Mario Cortina-Borja, Robert Aldridge +2
Data linkage is increasingly used in health research and policy making and is relied on for understanding health inequalities. However, linked data is only as useful as the underly…