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Studies either omit records lacking SSN or use "soft linkage" [ 32– 32].
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The law's "exemption 7," about facts gathered for law enforcement, omits records whose release could be "an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy".
We then omitted records that had missing values for any of the variables under consideration.
Only taxa identified to the species level (named or known as new species) were included; e.g. we omitted records as Lamellibrachia sp. or Escarpia sp. that were reported from 3 different sites of the GoM or Barbados, but used Calyptogena cf. kaikoi from Barbados trench based on molecular comparisons to specimens from the Florida escarpment and Mid-Atlantic Ridge [17].
The sensitivity and specificity of a standard approach for estimating fall-related hip fracture incidence using unlinked HDD (i.e. omitting records of in-hospital deaths, inter-hospital transfers and readmissions within 30 days of discharge) were 94.4% and 97.5%, respectively.
If parents had omitted recording symptoms on a daily basis, they provided information for the previous 2 weeks based on recall.
The height at which trees were measured in 1982 and 1985 was always recorded, and we omit growth records where the point-of-measure changed between censuses.
The data underwent a variety of editing checks and procedures, so as to omit duplicate records.
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