Re: st: "sounds like" function in Stata

[Thomas Speidel <thomas@tmbx.com>]

I believe Stata 11 has now a built-in function for this:
http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?soundex

Quoting Tirthankar Chakravarty <tirthankar.chakravarty@gmail.com> Tue  
18 Aug 13:01:47 2009:

> <>
> ssc install _gsoundex
>
> due to Michael Blasnik. Or, in Stata 11:
> http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?string+functions
>
> T
>
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 7:55 PM, Dalhia<ggs_da@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Hi, Is there some kind of "sounds like" function in Stata? I have a  
> > list of companies but the names are sometimes a little different.  
> > Example AOL Time Warner also appears as AOL, Time Warner, and Time  
> > Warner Inc. I need a method to figure out that all these are the  
> > same entity, and none of the string functions in Stata seem to do  
> > what I want. Do any of you have any suggestions. Here is how the  
> > data looks like:
> >
> > Name
> >
> > AOL
> > AOL Time Warner
> > Time Warner Inc
> > Microsoft
> > Microsoft Inc
> > Microsft
> >
> > Ideally, what I would like is some way to indicate which names are  
> > similar. For example:
> >
> > Name, Similarity
> >
> > AOL, 1
> > AOL Time Warner, 1
> > Time Warner Inc, 1
> > Microsoft, 2
> > Microsoft Inc, 2
> > Microsft, 2
> >
> > Any help will be much appreciated.
> > Thanks
> > Dalhia
> >
> > --- On Fri, 6/5/09, Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk> wrote:
> >
> > > From: Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>
> > > Subject: st: RE: appling string functions across observations
> > > To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> > > Date: Friday, June 5, 2009, 3:00 PM
> > > Check out -fndmtch2- or -fndmtch-
> > > from SSC. At first sight they don't
> > > address this problem, but there are at least two ways
> > > forward:
> > >
> > > It sounds as if you have surnames and full names (or the
> > > equivalent in
> > > your area). -split- the fullnames and work with the
> > > separate variables.
> > >
> > > Clone one of the programs above but modify the code to look
> > > for string
> > > inclusion rather than strict equality.
> > >
> > > Nick
> > > n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
> > >
> > >
> > > Dalhia
> > >
> > > I have a list of two variables: name1 and name2.  I
> > > need to check if
> > > name2 occurs in any of the name1s. The regexm command in
> > > stata is
> > > perfect for what I want to do, but it checks only one
> > > string at a time,
> > > and I need it to somehow rotate over a whole list of
> > > names.
> > >
> > > Here is what I  have:
> > >
> > > name1
> > > ram solanki
> > > goel mehta
> > > ashish gupta
> > >
> > > name2
> > > solanki
> > > mehta
> > >
> > > I need to be able to figure out that "solanki" and "mehta"
> > > in name2
> > > occur in name1 observation1 and observation2.
> > >
> > >
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