Invariant and metric free proximities for data matching: An R package

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1-22

  Iacus, Stefano M ^a   Porro, Giuseppe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Data matching; R

Indexed keywords

EID: 46749098330     PISSN: 15487660     EISSN: 15487660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v025.i11     Document Type: Article

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