Demonstrating an approach for evaluating synthetic geospatial and temporal epidemiologic data utility: Results from analyzing >1.8 million SARS-CoV-2 tests in the United States National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C).

Jason A Thomas Randi E ForakerNoa ZamsteinPhilip R O PayneAdam B Wilcoxnull null

Published in: medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences (2021)

In general, synthetic data were successfully used to analyze geospatial and temporal trends. Analyses using small sample sizes or populations were limited, in part due to purposeful data label suppression -an attribute disclosure countermeasure. Users should consider data fitness for use in these cases.

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