BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Table 2 Characteristics of global similarity (gS) and atomic similarities (aS) in the identified pairs without exact concordance

From: Medical record linkage in health information systems by approximate string matching and clustering

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

* BN = birth name, MN = married name

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