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timothy vogel replied to Sumanth Suri's discussion 'Question on using SAS to make an 80% match' in the group SAS Network

String Comparators are old neews in statistics. RegEx like Soundex operators are specialized but all do essentially the same thing, but according to your "model". Not having such a model only to depend on a default PROC like SPEDIS is always computi…

July 24, 2009

Tomas Keller (formerly Ohlson) replied to Sumanth Suri's discussion 'Question on using SAS to make an 80% match' in the group SAS Network

I used the SPEDIS function in SAS to compare two names. The function will return a score depending on the similarity between the words, then you can use some threshold to filter out the name matches. It is not obvious what a 80 % match means therefo…

July 24, 2009

Sumanth Suri added a discussion to the group SAS Network

Question on using SAS to make an 80% match

I'm trying to match off names between 2 bases. I essentially need to find all situations where there is an 80% match off between names. Does anyone know how to do this? If not, can you please tell me where i should post this to get this information.…

July 23, 2009

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Short Bio:

I've worked for 3.5 years in a bank in the analytics division. Am not interested in identifying areas where analytics can be used in banks, but is currently not being done.

Field of Expertise:

Data Mining, Marketing Databases, SAS, Web Analytics

Years of Experience in Analytical Role:

4 years

Professional Status:

Manager