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

DOI10.1007/s11222-017-9746-6zbMath1386.68046OpenAlexW2606460416MaRDI QIDQ1703852

Peter Christen, David J. Hand

Publication date: 7 March 2018

Published in: Statistics and Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/46235

zbMATH Keywords

classificationprecisionrecallclass imbalanceentity resolutiondata linkage

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30) Database theory (68P15)

Related Items (2)

\(F^*\): an interpretable transformation of the F-measure ⋮ RB-CCR: radial-based combined cleaning and resampling algorithm for imbalanced data classification

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