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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Oct 29.
Published in final edited form as: Stat Med. 2017 Mar 16;36(16):2514–2521. doi: 10.1002/sim.7287

Table III. Probability that we obtain the correct match for each identifier linkage pattern, and correlation of these probabilities with the procedure weights.

Identifier linkage pattern Probability the match is correct
0 0 0 0 *
0 0 0 1 *
0 0 1 0 *
0 0 1 1 *
0 1 0 0 *
0 1 0 1 *
0 1 1 0 *
0 1 1 1 0.072
1 0 0 0 *
1 0 0 1 0.013
1 0 1 0 *
1 0 1 1 0.071
1 1 0 0 *
1 1 0 1 0.071
1 1 1 0 0.048
1 1 1 1 0.695
Correlation for scaling procedure** 0.53
Correlation for traditional procedure** 0.26
*

Indicates probability <0.01.

**

The first and last (0000, 1111) categories are omitted.