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st: Fuzzy collapse
From
Charles Vellutini <[email protected]>
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Subject
st: Fuzzy collapse
Date
Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:03:57 -0800
Dear Statalisters,
I have a string variable holding thousands of search keywords, many of them identical up to a few accents or characters. Here is a typical sample:
keyword
Obs1 télécommandes
Obs2 télecommandes
Obs3 télécomandes
Obs4 telecommandes
Obs5 télécommande
etc.
I would like to do a "fuzzy" collapse, that is, to group observations with near-identical keywords. I could write manual multiple -replace-'s to harmonize keywords, but given the size of the dataset and the variety of keywords, that is hardly feasible. I am aware of the -reclink- user-written command for fuzzy merging but that is for merging two datasets, not for collapsing observations within a dataset. It is not immediately evident to me how I could use -reclink- to solve my problem, but maybe that is feasible?
Any suggestion much appreciated.
Thanks,
Charles
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