How good is probabilistic record linkage to reconstruct reproductive histories? Results from the Aberdeen children of the 1950s study
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>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...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2006-03-01
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Series: | BMC Medical Research Methodology |
Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2288/6/15 |