Statistical Distortion: Consequences of Data Cleaning

Summary: Introduces statistical distortion as a metric for data cleaning impact. A scalable experimental framework evaluates glitch improvement, statistical distortion, and cost, addressing gaps in existing metrics; demonstrated on real-world data. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 10402
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2012
Pagerank: 9.881077e-05
Overall Rank: 1,975 | 86.28%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Tamraparni Dasu
2. Ji Meng Loh

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 11 of 11 citing papers.

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516	Can Foundation Models Wrangle Your Data?	2023	VLDB	0.00021194444
1,340	HoloDetect: Few-Shot Learning for Error Detection	2019	SIGMOD	0.00012492795
1,403	Detecting Data Errors: Where are we and what needs to be done?	2016	VLDB	0.00012180046
2,417	Combining Quantitative and Logical Data Cleaning	2016	VLDB	8.8502556e-05
4,991	Sequential Data Cleaning: A Statistical Approach	2016	SIGMOD	5.7754141e-05
5,319	Earth Mover's Distance based Similarity Search at Scale	2014	VLDB	5.5680481e-05
6,447	Multivariate Time Series Cleaning under Speed Constraints	2024	SIGMOD	5.0534784e-05
7,233	CleanM: An Optimizable Query Language for Unified Scale-Out Data Cleaning	2017	VLDB	4.788267e-05
7,449	OTClean: Data Cleaning for Conditional Independence Violations using Optimal Transport	2024	SIGMOD	4.7224022e-05
10,520	The Best of Both Worlds: On Repairing Timestamps and Attribute Values for Multivariate Time Series	2025	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
13,396	FIT to Monitor Feed Quality	2015	VLDB	-

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
656	ERACER: A Database Approach for Statistical Inference and Data Cleaning	2010	SIGMOD	0.00018590675
2,682	Online Data Fusion	2011	VLDB	8.3166884e-05
3,690	GDR: A System for Guided Data Repair	2010	SIGMOD	6.8351349e-05

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