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jlink
Links records across two datasets from a match rule written in plain English, from Python, the shell, Stata, or R, and reports F1 0.73 against 0.69 for tuned string matching on NBER patent assignees to Compustat.
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jlink Record linkage where you write the match rule in plain English. String distance links "Acme Widgets Inc." to "ACME WIDGETS, INC". It does not link "IBM" to "International Business Machines", and it cannot know that you want a subsidiary kept apart from its parent. A research assistant can do both, slowly. jlink asks Jev, a decision model from …
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- Data and ops
- owner
- keltokhy
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- 1
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- 2026-09-18
- Language
- Python
- License
- MIT
What it is
- Form
- Library or SDK
- Host agent
- Standalone
- Audience
- Researchers
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