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Table 4. Two agreement vector examples and their corresponding linkage parameters.

The individual components in the vector represent agreement-disagreement between last name, NYSIIS transformed first name, middle initial, gender, month, day, and year of birth, respectively.

Agreement Vectors (γ j):
{1 1 0 1 1 1 1} {0 1 0 0 0 0 0}
True-link rate, estimated 0.424 3.1x10−6
SENSest 15.36% 100%
SENSobs 17.26% 99.92%
True non-link rate, estimated 9.3x10−7 0.117
SPECest 100% 70.64%
SPECobs 100% 82.45%
Link Score 18.8 (−15.2)