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How good is probabilistic record linkage to reconstruct reproductive histories? Results from the Aberdeen children of the 1950s study

BACKGROUND: Probabilistic record linkage is widely used in epidemiology, but studies of its validity are rare. Our aim was to validate its use to identify births to a cohort of women, being drawn from a large cohort of people born in Scotland in the early 1950s. METHODS: The Children of the 1950s co...

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Autores principales: Nitsch, Dorothea, Morton, Susan, DeStavola, Bianca L, Clark, Heather, Leon, David A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1473197/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16553951
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-6-15