一个开源的概率记录链接过程,用于记录与家庭级信息:模拟研究和应用分析分析
John Prindle1, Himal Suthar2, Emily Putnam-Hornstein3
1Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States America.
PloS one
|October 20, 2023
概括
本研究介绍了使用Python增强行政数据的家族概率记录链接 (PRLF). PRLF的准确性对数据退化很敏感,但优化的链接解决方案在政策研究中产生了可比的结果.
科学领域:
- 数据科学数据科学数据科学
- 行政数据研究 管理数据研究
- 机器学习应用 机器学习应用
背景情况:
- 行政记录往往缺乏用于政策分析的全面信息.
- 记录链接对于通过匹配个人来整合来自不同来源的数据至关重要.
- 现有的记录链接解决方案需要对基于家族的复杂数据集进行评估.
研究的目的:
- 引入和评估一种新的机器学习方法,即使用Python RecordLinkage包对家族进行概率记录链接 (PRLF).
- 在数据退化和匹配百分比的不同条件下评估PRLF的准确性.
- 在回归建模的背景下,将PRLF的性能与已建立的记录链接工具 (ChoiceMaker,Link Plus) 进行比较.
主要方法:
- 开发了管理记录的模拟,以测试PRLF准确性,操纵匹配和数据退化率.
- 在PRLF框架内应用机器学习算法进行概率评分.
- 对比回归模型使用PRLF,ChoiceMaker和Link Plus链接的数据估计性能.
主要成果:
- PRLF准确度受到数据退化 (缺失或不匹配的字段) 的显著影响,而不是匹配的百分比.
- 优化了PRLF,ChoiceMaker和Link Plus的实现,在回归建模中产生了类似的结果.
- 集合方法被确定为提高记录链接中的匹配精度的优势.
结论:
- PRLF提供了一种可行的基于机器学习的解决方案,用于将基于家庭的记录与行政数据联系起来.
- 数据质量和退化是影响任何记录链接方法准确性的关键因素.
- 研究人员可以使用不同的优化记录链接工具来实现类似的分析结果,用于管理数据集.
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