RecordLinkage (version 0.4-12.4)

makeBlockingPairs: Create record pairs from blocks of ids.

Description

Create record pairs from blocks of ids.

Usage

makeBlockingPairs(id_vec)

Value

A matrix with two columns, each row holding the ids of one record pair.

Arguments

id_vec

A list of integer vectors.

Author

Andreas Borg

Details

Each element in id_vec holds the ids of a set of records which agree for a particular blocking variable (see compare.dedup for the blocking mechanism). For each block, all unordered pairs of the ids are created and concatenated in the output.