dedupeMatches: dedupeMatches

In fastLink: Fast Probabilistic Record Linkage with Missing Data

dedupeMatches

Description

Dedupe matched dataframes.

Usage

dedupeMatches(matchesA, matchesB, EM,
matchesLink, patterns, linprog)

Arguments

matchesA	A dataframe of the matched observations in dataset A, with all variables used to inform the match.
matchesB	A dataframe of the matched observations in dataset B, with all variables used to inform the match.
EM	The EM object from emlinkMARmov()
matchesLink	The output from matchesLink()
patterns	The output from getPatterns().
linprog	Whether to implement Winkler's linear programming solution to the deduplication problem. Default is false.

Value

dedupeMatches() returns a list containing the following elements:

matchesA	A deduped version of matchesA
matchesB	A deduped version of matchesB
EM	A deduped version of the EM object

Author(s)

Ted Enamorado <[e-mail]> and Ben Fifield <[e-mail]>

fastLink documentation built on Nov. 17, 2023, 9:06 a.m.