Technical advance
Some methods for blindfolded record linkage
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* Corresponding author: Tim Churches tchur@doh.health.nsw.gov.au
1 Centre for Epidemiology and Research, Population Health Division, New South Wales Department of Health, Locked Mail Bag 961, North Sydney NSW 2059, Australia
2 Department of Computer Science, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2004, 4:9 doi:10.1186/1472-6947-4-9
Published: 28 June 2004Additional files
Additional File 1:
Annotated copy of Python programs which illustrate Protocol 2, and their output.
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Additional File 2:
An impractical protocol for minimum-knowledge calculation of the Jaro and Winkler metrics.
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Installable copy of Python prgrammes and associated data files for Posix (Unix, Linux and Apple Mac OS X) computers. Instructions for the installation and use of these programmes appear in Appendix 1 (additional file 1).
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Installable copy of Python prgrammes and associated data files for Microsoft Windows computers. Instructions for the installation and use of these programmes appear in Appendix 1 (additional file 1).
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