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Accuracy of Probabilistic Linkage Using the Enhanced Matching System for Public Health and Epidemiological Studies

BACKGROUND: The Enhanced Matching System (EMS) is a probabilistic record linkage program developed by the tuberculosis section at Public Health England to match data for individuals across two datasets. This paper outlines how EMS works and investigates its accuracy for linkage across public health...

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Autores principales: Aldridge, Robert W., Shaji, Kunju, Hayward, Andrew C., Abubakar, Ibrahim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4547731/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26302242
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0136179