STRDIST: Stata module to calculate the Levenshtein distance, or edit distance, between strings

Michael Barker () and Felix Pöge ()
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Michael Barker: Georgetown University
Felix Pöge: Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: strdist calculates the Levenshtein distance, or edit distance, between strings. It is implemented in Mata, and does not require a C plugin. ustrdist handles Unicode strings.

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 10 (version 14 for ustrdist)
Keywords: edit distance; Levenshtein distance; string comparison; data management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-11-11, Revised 2017-12-13
Note: This module should be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install strdist". The module is made available under terms of the GPL v3 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt). Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.
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http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/s/strdist.ado program code (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/s/strdist.sthlp help file (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/u/ustrdist.ado program code (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/u/ustrdist.sthlp help file (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/t/test_strdist.do sample do-file (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/t/test_ustrdist.do sample do-file (text/plain)

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