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RecordLinkage (version 0.2-0)

RecLinkData.object: Record Linkage Data Object

Description

An object representing information about record pairs for Record Linkage, as returned by functions compare.dedup and compare.linkage.

Arguments

Value

  • dataData frame of original records.
  • pairsData frame of data pairs. Each row represents the comparison of two records, identified by columns id1 and id2. The following columns contain for each considered attribute a real number in the range [0..1] representing the degree of similarity. These columns are named according to the respective columns in data. The last column contains the matching status of the pair, coded as 1 for a match or 0 for a non-match.
  • frequenciesNumeric vector with average frequency of values for each column included in pairs (reciprocal of number of distinct values).
  • typeCharacter string identifying whether a linkage ("linkage") or a deduplication ("dedup") project is represented.
  • Furthermore, the components M, U, W and Wdata are present if weights have been calculated. See emWeights and epiWeights for details.

See Also

compare.dedup, compare.linkage