"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…"
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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
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…"
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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.Regards,SumanthSee More
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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
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