From cgreen@webspinners.ca Fri Mar 17 04:24:08 2000 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id EAA51236 for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 04:24:07 -0800 Received: from surf.pangea.ca (qmailr@surf.pangea.ca [204.112.101.109]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with SMTP id EAA26585 for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 04:24:07 -0800 Received: (qmail 3511 invoked from network); 17 Mar 2000 12:24:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO surf.pangea.ca) (64.4.88.85) by www.webspinners.ca with SMTP; 17 Mar 2000 12:24:02 -0000 Message-Id: <3.0.32.20000317062157.00a46100@webspinners.ca> X-Sender: cgreen@webspinners.ca (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 06:22:00 -0600 To: waphgis@u.washington.edu From: cgreen Subject: Re: record matching software Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" "Automatch" (search on Internet for this). Also contains address standardization routines. Its worth about $3000. Chris Green Manitoba Health Epidemiology Unit Winnipeg, Manitoba At 10:03 AM 03/16/2000 EST, you wrote: >Does anyone use or have names (and price) of software used for probabilistic >matching of records. This is sometimes called soundex matching when names are >used. I'll be using fields in addition to name to get the match. > >Thanks > >George Yocher >gyocher@state.de.us > > .