BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Table 5 The minimum size of an equivalence class in a simulated obituary

From: Evaluating the risk of patient re-identification from adverse drug event reports

Quasi-identifiers						Minimum obituary
Province	Age at death	Gender	Day of report	Month of report	Year of report	Equivalence class size
	X	X	X	X	X	263
	X	X		X	X	6514
	X	X			X	8459
	2 yr	X			X	16671
	5 yr	X			X	39780
	10 yr	X			X	79619
X	X	X	X	X	X	253
X	X	X		X	X	6486
X	X	X			X	8459
X	2 yr	X			X	16671
X	5 yr	X			X	39780
X	10 yr	X			X	79619

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