ludic

Overview

ludic is a package which performs probabilistic record linkage methods that relies on the use of diagnosis codes only, in the absence of direct identifiers. On top of the CRAN help files, the following article explains what ludic is about:

BP Hejblum, G Weber, KP Liao, N Palmer, S Churchill, P Szolovits, S Murphy, I Kohane, T Cai, Probabilistic Record Linkage of De-Identified Research Datasets Using Diagnosis Codes, 2017, submitted.

Installation

The easiest way to get ludic is to install it from CRAN:

install.packages("ludic")

or alternatively you can get the development version from GitHub:

#install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("borishejblum/ludic")

– Boris Hejblum