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Query: Assessing the accuracy of record linkages with Markov chain based Monte
  Carlo simulation approach   Record linkage is the process of finding matches and linking records from
different data sources so that the linked records belong to the same entity.
There is an increasing number of applications of record linkage in statistical,
health, government and business organisations to link administrative, survey,
population census and other files to create a complete set of information for
more complete and comprehensive analysis. To make valid inferences using a
linked file, it is increasingly becoming important to assess the linking
method. It is also important to find techniques to improve the linking process
to achieve higher accuracy. This motivates to develop a method for assessing
linking process and help decide which linking method is likely to be more
accurate for a linking task. This paper proposes a Markov Chain based Monte
Carlo simulation approach, MaCSim for assessing a linking method and
illustrates the utility of the approach using a realistic synthetic dataset
received from the Australian Bureau of Statistics to avoid privacy issues
associated with using real personal information. A linking method applied by
MaCSim is also defined. To assess the defined linking method, correct re-link
proportions for each record are calculated using our developed simulation
approach. The accuracy is determined for a number of simulated datasets. The
analyses indicated promising performance of the proposed method MaCSim of the
assessment of accuracy of the linkages. The computational aspects of the
methodology are also investigated to assess its feasibility for practical use.

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The categories of this paper are: mtrl-th
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The categories of this paper are: gr-qc
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The categories of this paper are: plasm-ph
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