William E. Winkler

William Erwin Winkler (November 11, 1946 – June 30, 2022) was an American statistician who spent most of his career at the U.S. Census Bureau. He is known for many contributions to the development of probabilistic methods for record linkage[1][2] and the invention of the Jaro-Winkler distance for strings.[3][4][5]

  1. ^ "William E. Winkler: A High-Impact Career in Statistical Computing - Yves Thibaudeau". Massive Data Institute. 15 August 2022.
  2. ^ Winkler, William E. (September 2014). "Matching and record linkage". WIREs Computational Statistics. 6 (5): 313–325. doi:10.1002/wics.1317. S2CID 60467185.
  3. ^ Cohen, William W.; Ravikumar, Pradeep; Fienberg, Stephen E. (9 August 2003). "A comparison of string distance metrics for name-matching tasks". Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Information Integration on the Web. AAAI Press: 73–78.
  4. ^ Dreßler, Kevin; Ngonga Ngomo, Axel-Cyrille (6 December 2016). "On the efficient execution of bounded Jaro-Winkler distances". Semantic Web. 8 (2): 185–196. doi:10.3233/SW-150209.
  5. ^ Winkler, William E. (1990). "String Comparator Metrics and Enhanced Decision Rules in the Fellegi-Sunter Model of Record Linkage".