Preparation of name and address data for record linkage using hidden Markov models.

Authors:
Churches T; Christen P; Lim K; Zhu JX.

Journal:
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak

Publication Year: 2002

DOI:
10.1186/1472-6947-2-9

PMCID:
PMC140019

PMID:
12482326

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Journal Title: BMC Med Inform Decis Mak

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Subject Category: Medical Informatics

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"currently the observation symbols and hidden states are "hard coded" into the febrl software package although they can be altered by editing the freely available source code."

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"Competing interests None."

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"AcknowledgementsThis work was equally funded by the Australian National University (ANU) and the New South Wales Department of Health under ANU-Industry Collaboration Scheme (AICS) grant number 1-2001. The authors thank the reviewers for their detailed and helpful comments, which motivated substantial improvements to the paper."

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