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| From | "Dimitriy V. Masterov" <dvmaster@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: Comparing similar strings |
| Date | Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:49:00 -0500 |
Take a look stgroup (and the bundled command levenshtein) from ssc. For example, . levenshtein "John Seballos" "John Zeballos" 1 . levenshtein "Kate Smith" "Robert Gonzalez" 14 DVM * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/