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RE: Re: st: Comparing similar strings
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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RE: Re: st: Comparing similar strings
Date
Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:33:31 +0000
Good idea, but -soundex()- is a Stata-wide function, not an -egen- function.
Nick
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Clyde B Schechter
As an alternative to -levenshtein-, Daniel S. might want to consider comparing names using the -egen- function soundex(). Soundex was developed about a century ago and is specifically designed to match variant spellings of name. As such, it is a bit more sophisticated about probable types of misspellings than -levenshtein-, which is basically a distance metric on strings.
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