recordlinkage
nounUK /ˈrekɔːd ˈlɪŋkɪdʒ/
US /ˈrekərd ˈlɪŋkɪdʒ/
Record linkage is when computers join matching pieces of information from different lists.
The hospital used record linkage to match patient files from two different clinics.
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2. The process of finding and combining duplicate records within a single database.
Record linkage helped clean up the messy customer list by merging repeated entries.
3. A statistical method for connecting datasets without shared unique IDs.
Researchers relied on record linkage to combine census and health survey data.
4. The technical field studying algorithms for identifying the same real-world entity across sources.
She published a paper on record linkage and privacy-preserving matching.