Probabilistic record linkage with the Fellegi and Sunter framework: Using probabilistic record linkage to link privacy preserved police and hospital road accident records

Record linkage is the procedure of bringing together information from two or more records that are believed to belong to the same entity. The linking of a pair of records without identifier should be based on attributes both records have in common. The probabilistic framework described by Fellegi and Sunter (1969) can be used for record linkage....