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Table 5 Estimated probabilities

From: Estimating parameters for probabilistic linkage of privacy-preserved datasets

	NSW		SA		WA
Field	EM m-prob	Est. u-prob	EM m-prob	Est. u-prob	EM m-prob	Est. u-prob
First Name	0.9817	0.0024	0.8707	0.0015	0.9732	0.0027
Middle Name	0.4686	0.0017	0.1846	0.0004	0.4385	0.0025
Last Name	0.9916	0.0005	0.8931	0.0005	0.9823	0.0006
Dob Year	0.9973	0.0113	0.9997	0.0114	0.9935	0.0119
Dob Month	0.9987	0.0834	0.9988	0.0834	0.9949	0.0835
Dob Day	0.9965	0.0325	0.9988	0.0325	0.9963	0.0326
Sex	0.9999	0.5008	1.0000	0.5010	0.9998	0.5018
Address	0.8325	7.99E-06	0.6486	2.8E-05	0.7338	1.7E-05
Suburb	0.9303	0.0016	0.7462	0.0038	0.8402	0.0047
Postcode	0.9540	0.0034	0.7574	0.0070	0.8640	0.0104

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