The explosive growth in fake news and its erosion to democracy, justice, and public trust has
increased the demand for fake news detection and intervention. This survey reviews and …

arxiv:1812.00315v1 [cs.CL] 2 Dec 2018 Page 1 Fake News: A Survey of Research,
Detection Methods, and Opportunities XINYI ZHOU, Syracuse University, USA REZA …

Since most social science research relies on multiple data sources, merging data sets is an
essential part of researchers' workflow. Unfortunately, a unique identifier that unambiguously …

Record linkage seeks to merge databases and to remove duplicates when unique identifiers
are not available. Most approaches use blocking techniques to reduce the computational …

Due to recent theoretical findings and advances in statistical computing, there has been a
rapid development of techniques and applications in the area of missing data analysis …

There is a lack of methodological results to design efficient Markov chain Monte Carlo
(MCMC) algorithms for statistical models with discrete-valued high-dimensional parameters …

Collecting data using probability samples can be expensive, and response rates for many
household surveys are decreasing. The increasing availability of large data sources opens …

Biobanks linked to electronic health records provide rich resources for health‐related
research. With improvements in administrative and informatics infrastructure, the availability …

Both Traditional Students and Working Professionals Acquire the Skills to Analyze Social
Problems. Big Data and Social Science: A Practical Guide to Methods and Tools shows how …

The increasing availability of large administrative databases for research has led to a
dramatic rise in the use of data linkage. The speed and accuracy of linkage have much …