Outcome Tests Version 8 -- Guidelines

Outcome Testing. Review match results in order to validate a current linkage model or improve a linkage model for use in future matches. Test for comparisons with dependent outcomes (Outcomes). The outcome test examples show that AccLoc (accident location) and StdDate (accident date) have significantly dependent comparison outcomes on Unmatched pairs (p < 0.01), requiring that Agree X be set to 0.91 to correct for the dependency. On the other hand, StdDobD (date of birth day) and StdDobM (date of birth month) have significantly dependent comparison outcomes on Matched pairs (p < 0.01), requiring Agree X to be set to 0.99 and Disagree X to 0.63 to correct for the dependency.