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Autor:
Howard B. Newcombe
Publikováno v:
Cancer Causes & Control. 5:287-291
The extent to which major cohort studies now rely on centralized machine-readable files of personal records is taken largely for granted by investigators, but not by the public, privacy advocates, politicians, or the popular press. When widespread li
Publikováno v:
Journal of the American Statistical Association. 87:1193-1204
The skill of a human who searches large files of personal records depends much on prior knowledge of how the names vary in successive documents pertaining to the same individuals (e.g., as with ANTHONY–TONY, JOSEPH–JOE, WILLIAM–BILL). Now, an e
Autor:
Howard B. Newcombe
Publikováno v:
Computers and biomedical research, an international journal. 28(2)
Major systematic bias can result when age-specific mortality data are sought through automated searches of large national death files, based on calculated odds in favor of a correct match. The bias occurs whenever the calculation fails to take into a
Publikováno v:
Computers and biomedical research, an international journal. 24(1)
Automated methods for linking records pertaining to the same individuals have in the past made only crude use of the name information. A perceptive filing clerk is more sophisticated because humans retain a lifetime memory of instances in which varia
Publikováno v:
Journal of the American Statistical Association. 87:1207-1208
Autor:
Howard B. Newcombe
Publikováno v:
Health Physics. 39:783-796
Autor:
Martha E. Smith, Howard B. Newcombe
Publikováno v:
American Journal of Public Health. 70:1261-1268
Increased public awareness of the possible presence of carcinogens and other potentially harmful agents in the workplace and in other areas of the environment has created a demand for studies to determine the extent of the risks associated with expos
Autor:
Howard B. Newcombe, John D. Abbatt
Publikováno v:
Journal of Public Health. 5:321-326
Publikováno v:
Methods of Information in Medicine. 28:92-96
The preceeding paper examined the logical basis of an exact way of calculating the discriminating powers of people’s names when they only partially agree. The method has application to automated file searching and record linkage. The present accoun
Autor:
Howard B. Newcombe
Publikováno v:
Canadian Journal of Genetics and Cytology. 20:459-470
Available human data, of the kinds needed to assess the genetic harm to man from possible changes in his mutation rate, currently suffer from major limitations. In particular there is uncertainty about a) the total amount of hereditary disease, b) th