Definition: Jaro distance

Category: Memobust Glossary

Count of the number of common characters and the number of transpositions of characters (same character with a different position in the string) between two strings. 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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