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Record W2606743718 · doi:10.23889/ijpds.v1i1.77

Record Linkage Project Process Model

2017· article· en· W2606743718 on OpenAlex
Richard Trudeau

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Journal for Population Data Science · 2017
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldDecision Sciences
TopicData Quality and Management
Canadian institutionsStatistics Canada
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRecord linkageLinkage (software)Linked dataProcess (computing)Computer scienceSession (web analytics)Information retrievalData scienceWorld Wide WebSociologyDemographyPopulation

Abstract

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ABSTRACTObjectivesIn April 2015, a Working Group on Record Linkage was created at Statistics Canada with the objective of achieving a common understanding of the concepts and processes involved in record linkage projects at Statistics Canada. ApproachA generic record linkage process model was mapped to reflect the general practices and activities involved in record linkage at Statistics Canada. The model was developed with a view for more general use by other statistical agencies involved in record linkage. It was built on the Generic Statistical Business Process Model v5.0 developed by the Joint UNECE/Eurostat/OECD Work Session on Statistical Metadata (METIS) for survey purposes. It also builds on international models of record linkage from Australia and the United States as well as record linkage methodology used at Statistics Canada. In addition, it was informed by the relevant legal and policy frameworks that govern all of Statistics Canada statistical activities. Over one hundred people involved in all aspects of record linkage at Statistics Canada were consulted during this process.ResultsAn activity-oriented Record Linkage Project Process Model was drafted and proposed as a standard for the agency. It breaks down the record linkage process into three meta-phases: project planning, record linkage, post-linkage activities. Each meta-phase is further divided into phases and sub-phases that describe the activities of the record linkage project from specification of needs to project close-out and evaluation. An additional feature of the model is a description of the outcome of each phase that can be used as a milestone marker or as a gateway to the next phase. ConclusionAs a descriptive model, the Record Linkage Project Process Model will inform management on the range of activities related to a record linkage project that go well beyond the function of matching records between two data files. It can also be used as a prescriptive model that will provide guidance to individuals engaging in a record linkage project.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.011
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.018
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Science and technology studies, Scholarly communication, Open science
Consensus categoriesScholarly communication
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.793
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0110.018
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.000
Scholarly communication0.0070.014
Open science0.0160.002
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.592
GPT teacher head0.615
Teacher spread0.023 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it