jlink
Links records under a plain-English match rule using Jev Noul pair judgments, with local candidate blocking and match resolution.
Record linkage for economists: write the match rule in plain English, get a probability per pair, audit it, cite it. Python, CLI, Stata and R.
How it uses Jev
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 TypeSafe, the question a research assistant would answer: given these two records and this rule, are they the same firm? Jev returns a pro…
- Languages
- Python 93% · JavaScript 2% · Stata 2% · CSS 1%
- License
- MIT
- Last activity
- Sep 2026
- Added
- 2026-09-20
- Stars at snapshot
- 2
- Status
- Community listing
Source: community catalog. Details and metrics reflect the published community snapshot and are not a performance endorsement. Documentation details extracted from GitHub · the README.