dedupeMatches function

dedupeMatches

Dedupe matched dataframes.

dedupeMatches(matchesA, matchesB, EM,
matchesLink, patterns, linprog)

Arguments

• matchesA: A dataframe of the matched observations in dataset A, with all variables used to inform the match.
• matchesB: A dataframe of the matched observations in dataset B, with all variables used to inform the match.
• EM: The EM object from emlinkMARmov()
• matchesLink: The output from matchesLink()
• patterns: The output from getPatterns().
• linprog: Whether to implement Winkler's linear programming solution to the deduplication problem. Default is false.

Returns

dedupeMatches() returns a list containing the following elements: - matchesA: A deduped version of matchesA

• matchesB: A deduped version of matchesB

• EM: A deduped version of the EM object

Author(s)

Ted Enamorado ted.enamorado@gmail.com and Ben Fifield benfifield@gmail.com