corlink {corlink}

corlink: Record linkage, Incorporating Imputation for Missing Agreement Patterns, and Modeling correlation patterns between fields

Description

A matrix of agreement patterns and counts for record pairs is the input for the procedure. An EM algorithm is used to impute plausible values for missing record pairs. A second EM algorithm, incorporating possible correlations between per-field agreement, is used to estimate posterior probabilites that each pair is a true match - i.e. constitutes the same individual.

corlink functions

linkd