The phrase "a combination of identifiers" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing elements that are grouped together to form a unique reference or label, often in contexts like programming, databases, or data analysis.
Example: "In our database, each entry is stored with a combination of identifiers to ensure uniqueness and easy retrieval."
Alternatives: "a set of identifiers" or "a grouping of identifiers".
The smartphone will probably play a more critical role as 'authenticator' - i.e., confirming the legitimacy of purchases and other financial transactions, through a combination of unique identifiers like GPS, biometrics and user data.
For each value of diagnosis code there is a combination of quasi-identifiers that the adversary can use.
The fragment identifiers prefixed with the chemical descriptor namespace were constructed based on a combination of primary accession identifiers (CID or SID) and descriptor labels, except the depositor-provided synonyms.
Given the absence of a unique identification number for linking mothers and newborns listed in the different registers, matching was carried out individually by a combination of mother's identifier details (name, age, husband's name, address) and childbirth information (type of delivery, date of birth, sex of baby).
If a mapping results in multiple identifiers, for instance, when mapping from gene to protein identifiers, all combinations of identifiers are used.
Consider each combination of identifiers to belong to its own, discrete cluster, identified by a cluster identifier (Start cluster id).
Perhaps a linkage system that best serves the demands of epidemiological research in the future could readily incorporate a combination of exact matching on universal identifier corroborated by probability matching techniques on the traditional identifiers.
In our study, we selected four common identifiers (surname, first name, sex, and date of birth) from a set of personal identifiers and composed three different combinations of four identifiers: (1) a combination of surname, sex and date of birth, (2) first name, sex, and date of birth, and (3) surname, first name, sex and date of birth.
(We did not use a weighted match procedure either – weights are very useful when matching on name since some names are exceedingly more common than others – our combination of identifiers bypassed this critical confound as well).
