deduplicate_equivalence: Deduplicatin using equivalence groups

In reclin: Record Linkage Toolkit

Description

Deduplicatin using equivalence groups

Usage

deduplicate_equivalence(pairs, var = "duplicate_groups", selection, x)

Arguments

pairs	a pairs object, such as generated by pair_blocking
var	name of the variable to create in x that will contain the group labels.
selection	a logical variable with the same length as pairs has rows, or the name of such a variable in pairs. Pairs are only selected when select is TRUE. When missing attr(pairs, "selection") is used when available.
x	the first data set; when missing attr(pairs, "x") is used.

Value

Returns x with a variable containing the group labels. Records with the same group label (should) correspond to the same entity.

reclin documentation built on Nov. 23, 2021, 9:09 a.m.