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Re: st: data problem - duplicates
On Jun 3, 2008, at 7:51 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
"Name" is the only variable which I can use to select duplicates. I
know that there are ways and programs which are able to define a
kind of "similarity-index" which holds information about how
similar two or more variables are on the basis of counting the
different characters between the variables.
A common way to approach this is with the concept of "edit distance,"
which is the minimum number of operations required to transform one
string into another (also known as the Levenshtein distance). I've
never implemented this in Stata myself, but a program was posted to
Statalist several years ago:
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2002-08/msg00436.html
-- Phil
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