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@MISC{Winkler94advancedmethods,
author = {William E. Winkler},
title = {Advanced Methods For Record Linkage},
year = {1994}
}
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s Service. The study showed that the fewest errors typically occur at the beginning of a string and the error rates by character position increase monotonically as the position moves to the right. The enhancement basically consisted of adjusting the string comparator value upward by a fixed amount if the first four characters agreed; by lesser amounts if the first three, two, or one characters agreed. The string comparator examined by Budzkinsky (1991) consisted of the Jaro comparator with only the Winkler enhancement. The final enhancement due to Lynch and Winkler (1994) adjusts the string comparator value if the strings are longer than six characters and more than half the characters beyond the first four 4 agree. The final enhancement was based on detailed comparisons between versions of the comparator. The comparisons involved tens of thousands of pairs of last names, first names, and street names that did not agree on a character-by-character basis but were associated with truly...
