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RecordLinkage (version 0.3-2)

summary: Print Summary of Record Linkage Data

Description

Prints information on RecLinkData and "RecLinkResult" objects.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'RecLinkData':
summary(object,...)
## S3 method for class 'RecLinkResult':
summary(object,...)

Arguments

object
The object for which to print a summary.
...
Additional arguments from the generic, silently ignored.

Value

  • Returns an invisible NULL and is used for its side effect.

Details

The printed information for RecLinkData objects includes:
  • The number of records.
  • The number of record pairs.
  • The number of true matches, true non-matches and pairs with unknown status.
  • If weights have been calculated for this object, a textual histogram of the weight distribution.
Information on "RecLinkResult" objects includes all of the above and the following:
  • The number of detected links, non-links and possible links.
  • The following error measures, if the true matching status of all record pairs is known: Alpha error (ratio of false links to matches), beta error (ratio of false non-links to non-matches) and accuracy (ratio of correctly classified pairs to the total number of pairs).
  • A cross-classified table counting true matching status against classification. The true matching status is represented as logical values, possibly includingNAfor unknown status. Classification results are represented by:[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

See Also

RecLinkData,"RecLinkResult"