A Practical Approach to Proper Inference with Linked Data
A Practical Approach to Proper Inference with Linked Data
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使用关联数据进行正确推理的实用方法
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10.1080/00031305.2022.2041482
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2022
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Steorts, Rebecca C.
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作者:
Kaplan, Andee;Betancourt, Brenda;Steorts, Rebecca C.
Entity resolution (ER), comprising record linkage and deduplication, is the process of merging noisy databases in the absence of unique identifiers to remove duplicate entities. One major challenge of analysis with linked data is identifying a representative record among determined matches to pass to an inferential or predictive task, referred to as thedownstream task. Additionally, incorporating uncertainty from ER in the downstream task is critical to ensure proper inference. To bridge the gap between ER and the downstream task in an analysis pipeline, we propose five methods to choose a representative (orcanonical) record from linked data, referred to ascanonicalization. Our methods are scalable in the number of records, appropriate in general data scenarios, and provide natural error propagation via a Bayesian canonicalization stage. The proposed methodology is evaluated on three simulated datasets and one application – determining the relationship between demographic information and party affiliation in voter registration data from the North Carolina State Board of Elections. We first perform Bayesian ER and evaluate our proposed methods for canonicalization before considering the downstream tasks of linear and logistic regression. Bayesian canonicalization methods are empirically shown to improve downstream inference in both settings through prediction and coverage.
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