Changed disclosure checks to include NAs for cross-tabulations.#456
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Changed disclosure checks to include NAs for cross-tabulations.#456anarchodoc wants to merge 1 commit intodatashield:masterfrom
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This PR is to fix a disclosure bug whereby a table value below the threshold can be converted to NA and then identified. The fix entails including the NAs in the disclosure test.
In the following example, there's a variable ('sex_bin') which cannot be read as at least one of the categories has a value below the filter value (3):
So, recode the variable (I know it has 3 categories: 1,2,9 - and here I suspect 9 might be the suspect category):
Then, we can cross-tabulate the two variables - and it works! Look at this:
Now we clearly see that there were some individuals such that n was below the filter value (3) but these don't get picked up by the filter trap as they are now in the NA column. Specifically, there are 2 in COHORT1, 2 in COHORT2 and 1 in COHORT3 - giving a total of 5 subjects with value 9 in the original variable.