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A note on using the F-measure for evaluating record linkage algorithms

Hand, David, Christen, Peter·2018·Statistics and Computing

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Authors
Hand, D., & Christen, P.
Affiliations
  • Imperial College London (GB)
  • Australian National University (AU)
Corresponding author
Christen, Peter
Venue
Statistics and Computing
Published
2017-04-19
Volume
28
Issue
3
Pages
539-547
ISSN
  • 0960-3174 (ISSN-L)
  • 1573-1375
OpenAlex
W2606460416
Cited by
247
References
36
Citations by year
2026: 12 · 2025: 19 · 2024: 32 · 2023: 32 · 2022: 30 · 2021: 62 · 2020: 31 · 2019: 17 · 2018: 11 · 2017: 1
FWCI
14.54
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Statistics and Computing (publishedVersion)
  • ANU Open Research (Australian National University) (submittedVersion)
  • Spiral (Imperial College London) (submittedVersion)
Funders
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/K032208/1)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Data Quality and Management
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Machine Learning and Data Classification
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Data Mining and Machine Learning Applications
Keywords
data linkage, F-measure, precision and recall, evaluation metrics, class imbalance, entity resolution, record matching

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