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  1. Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics, Merrick School of Business, University of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Ting Zhang

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  1. School of Policy, Government and International Affairs, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA

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  2. School of Policy, Government and International Affairs, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA

    Connie L. McNeely

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Zhang, T. (2018). Probabilistic Matching. In: Schintler, L., McNeely, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Big Data. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32001-4_501-1

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