Table 2

Characteristics of global similarity (gS) and atomic similarities (aS) in the identified pairs without exact concordance

Atomic similarities

gS
BN*
MN*
BN/MN*
First name
Date of birth

Pairs
28,517
12,093
988
16,013
12,066
11,578
Mean
0.92
0.79
0.78
0.36
0.77
0.82
Stand. error
0.48
0.20
0.23
0.25
0.17
0.07
Minimum
0.85
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.65
Percentiles






     25th
0.87
0.76
0.62
0.22
0.63
0.77
     50th
0.92
0.88
0.90
0.41
0.82
0.85
     75th
0.97
0.92
0.94
0.52
0.92
0.88
     90th
0.99
0.95
0.96
0.63
0.95
0.88
     95th
0.99
0.96
0.96
0.75
0.96
0.88

* BN = birth name, MN = married name

Sauleau et al. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2005 5:32   doi:10.1186/1472-6947-5-32