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Table 2 Identifiers used for each parameter set

From: Evaluating privacy-preserving record linkage using cryptographic long-term keys and multibit trees on large medical datasets

Identifier

Parameter sets

Average

 

Set 1

Set 2

Set 3

Set 4

length

First Name

✓

✓

✓

✓

5

Middle Name

✗

✓

✗

✓

5

Last Name

✓

✓

✓

✓

6

Date of birth

✓

✓

✓

✓

8

Sex

✓

✓

✓

✓

1

Suburb

✗

✓

✓

✗

8

Address

✗

✓

✗

✗

17

Postcode

✗

✓

✓

✗

4