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# multilink

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multilink is an R package which implements methodology presented in the
manuscript “Multifile Partitioning for Record Linkage and Duplicate
Detection” by Serge Aleshin-Guendel and Mauricio Sadinle, published in
the [Journal of the American Statistical
Association](https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2021.2013242) and
available on [arXiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.03839v1). It handles the
general problem of multifile record linkage and duplicate detection,
where any number of files are to be linked, and any of the files may
have duplicates.

## Installation

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You can install the development version of multilink from GitHub with:

``` r
install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("aleshing/multilink")
```

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