Section 6-2 CALCULATIONS FOR DEATH DATE EXAMPLE

It will be instructive to take our example of fields in the death date and calculate the various weights and their probabilities of occurrence. This set of fields is not entirely typical, since their low presence values will result in very small probabilities. However, if we were to use the birth data, we would not be able to illustrate all the combinations because the birth year is always present. We will be adjusting presence, but using reliability and coincidence as measured. Value dependency involves a rather straightforward adjustment to these values, which we will cover in 6-3.