Definition: Damerau-Levenshtein distance

Category: Memobust Glossary

Metric defined to measure the distance between strings. It measures the minimum number of elementary steps to transform one string into another. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cros/content/memobust-glossary-pdf-file_en
Source:
Eurostat, "Memobust Glossary" (part of the Memobust Handbook on Methodology of Modern Business Statistics), ESSnet "Memobust", March 2014
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