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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:14px">Speaker: </p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:14px">Abel Rodriguez (<a href="https://stat.uw.edu/about-us/people/abel-rodriguez">https://stat.uw.edu/about-us/people/abel-rodriguez</a>)<br></p>
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<p class="gmail-p1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:14px">Title: </p><p class="gmail-p1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:14px">Bayesian Record Linkage Models:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>New Priors and Data Sources<br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:14px"><br></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Abstract:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Record linkage is the task of identifying records in databases that refer to the same entity in the absence of a unique identifier.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>Record linkage arises in a variety of applications, ranging from public health to defense and national security. While work on discriminative approaches to record linkage goes back to the late sixties and early seventies, approaches based on generative models that allow for full uncertainty quantification have become popular over the last 10 years.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>This presentation will describe two of our recent contributions to this literature. First, we describe a novel allelic partition prior for micro clustering that allows for the encoding of relevant prior information and shows superior empirical performance in deduplication tasks. Next, we describe how to incorporate relational information (such as the social network of the individuals to which the records correspond) to improve the quality of the linkages.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>This is joint work with my former students Juan Sosa and Brenda Betancourt.</p>
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