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Can Synthea be used to generate microdata? #1569

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Synthea is designed by default to generate a population that matches the demographics (e.g., age, gender, race/ethnicity, education, economic, SDoH distributions, etc) of a specific named area (e.g., state, or town/city). The disease modules determine the prevalence of disease and associated treatments and the resulting medical records (and claims), that are applied to that population.

Can this be done (possibly requiring editing/extending an existing module), thus creating 10k MMSE scores with a distribution matching the real AD MMSE distribution?

Yes, this can be done. By default the population will match the demographics for the area you are simulating -- so you'd expect to see the a…

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