scoreFamilies: Calculate match score generic.

In mPloenzke/bsnR:

Description

scoreFamilies returns a Scores object with the Neighbors slot populated with a match score for each potential duplicate found from the BSN algorithm. A match score is calculated by averaging the number of string/binary variable matches consistent between the two records plus a similarity measure for the continuous variables.

Usage

scoreFamilies(object, familyDat, selfID, motherID, fatherID)

## Default S3 method:
scoreFamilies(object, familyDat, selfID, motherID,
  fatherID)

## S3 method for class 'Blocks'
scoreFamilies(object, familyDat, selfID, motherID,
  fatherID)

## S3 method for class 'Scores'
scoreFamilies(object, familyDat, selfID, motherID,
  fatherID)

Arguments

object	object containing pre-computed Neighbors from the BSN algorithm.
familyDat	data matrix containing family data so score.
selfID	character referencing the column in familyDat which points to a self's ID.
motherID	character referencing the column in familyDat which points to a self's mother's ID
fatherID	character referencing the column in familyDat which points to a self's father's ID

Value

An object of class Scores containing the scored neighbor pairs.

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