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Data Linkage: An Overview .
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Recommended reading

• Fellegi, I. P. and Sunter, A. B. (1969) A Theory for Record Linkage, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 64, 1183-1210.
• Gill, L. (2001) Methods for Automatic Record Matching and Linkage and their use in National Statistics, The National Statistics Methodology Series, ONS (available at http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/guide-method/method-quality/specific/gss-methodology-series/index.html)
• Herzog, T. N., Scheuren, F. J. and Winkler, W. E. (2007) Data Quality and Record Linkage Techniques. New York: Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-69502-0
• Lahiri, P. and Larsen, M.D. (2005) Regression Analysis with Linked Data. Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 100, No. 469, 222-230 (Also at: http://www.stat.iastate.edu/preprint/articles/2004-09.pdf)
• Mason, C.A. amd Shihfen, T. (2008) Data Linkage Using Probabilistic Decision Rules: A Primer, Birth Defects Research (Part A): Clinical and Molecular Teratology 82, 812-821
• Winkler, W. E. (1995) Matching and Record Linkage, in B.G. Cox et al. (ed) Business Survey Methods, New York: J. Wiley, 355-384 http://www.fcsm.gov/working-papers/wwinkler.pdf