Sentence examples for proxy dates from inspiring English sources

The various intervals of time used for the estimation showed important variations among health regions, as presented in Additional file 1: Proxy dates for estimating date of onset.

It is unlikely that many of these were genuine matches as we would expect some women to share birth dates given the number of women in both datasets, particularly as women who do not know their DOB sometimes use common proxy dates, for example where the date matches the month (1st January, 2nd February, etc).

The earliest HIV-diagnosis date from either study was used unless one date was either 1st January or 30th June (proxy dates used when only year of diagnosis is known/reported) and the later date was during the same year, in which case the later date was used (n = 116).

By law, she said, the proxy dated closest to the date of the election is the only one that counts.

In such cases, she said, the proxy dated closest to the election is the one that counts.

When date of onset had to be estimated, the median time period (in days, by health region) between the onset and proxy date was subtracted from a case's specific proxy date and used as the estimated date of onset.

Exposure was determined by examining the proxy date of the elapsed day's supply with a 31-day grace period.

To reduce this bias, each person in the unexposed group was given a proxy date of prior infection achieved by randomly assigning the exposure dates observed in the exposed group to nonexposed persons.