Record Linkage for Empirically Motivated Priors

An implementation of the model in Steorts (2015) , which performs Bayesian entity resolution for categorical and text data, for any distance function defined by the user. In addition, the precision and recall are in the package to allow one to compare to any other comparable method such as logistic regression, Bayesian additive regression trees (BART), or random forests. The experiments are reproducible and illustrated using a simple vignette. LICENSE: GPL-3 + file license.


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install.packages("blink")

1.1.0 by Rebecca Steorts, 6 years ago


Browse source code at https://github.com/cran/blink


Authors: Rebecca Steorts [aut, cre]


Documentation:   PDF Manual  


GPL-3 license


Imports stats, utils

Depends on stringdist, plyr

Suggests knitr, rmarkdown


Depended on by klsh.

Suggested by chomper.


See at CRAN