Hi, I can try to answer your questions about the matching output, though I'm not sure why the groups file in the first example is just the one line. The second example seems reasonable, though. The higher score for the pair 3,1 is more likely a match than 3,2. The algorithm compares the fields marked as "include," as in "include this column in scoring." In the second case, the fields used for both pairs agreed on "jim," but one pair has "A" compared with "A" while the other pair had "A" compared with "B." The upward rating of 2 agreeing fields pushed the score of the pairs 3,1 above the pair that had just one agreement and one disagreement.
Have you looked at the wiki page for the module? It is at https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/docs/Patient+Matching+Module There is information about the Swing GUI and some explanation of terms. Between the OpenMRS module and the Swing GUI, the term "must match" means it is a blocking column, and "should match" is included in scoring. James From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Suranga Kasthurirathne Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 4:52 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [OPENMRS-IMPLEMENTERS] Newbie questions on patient Matching module Hi all, I've been looking at the patient matching module standalone, and trying to understand the matching concept. Assuming I have table A as follows, 0|1|2|3 (Column IDs) --------- 1|max|m|A 2|jack|m|A 3|jim|m|A and table B- 0|1|2|3 (Column IDs) --------- 1|jim|m|A 2|jim|m|B If I block on Column 1, and include column 2, then I would expect it to identify that the third record in table A is similar to records 1 and 2 of table B. After running the linkage process, I get the following results, the _groups.txt file says 0|0.0|3|2|jim|jim|m|m|A|B while the _new_match file says 0.0|3|1|jim|jim|m|m|A|A 0.0|3|2|jim|jim|m|m|A|B (i'm assuming that the double (0.0) in both cols mean that both these records match evenly ?) * any idea why the _groups.txt file fails to identify the relationship between 3|1 ? Instead if I were to run the same test blocking on Column 1, and including columns 2 and 3, I would expect it to identify that the third record in table A is similar to the first record of table B. the _groups.txt file says 0|3.1699250014423126|3|1|jim|jim|m|m|A|A while the _new_match file says 3.1699250014423126|3|1|jim|jim|m|m|A|A -3.1699250014423126|3|2|jim|jim|m|m|A|B * Can someone please help explain the data values given here ? I'm assuming that this means that the first record (3|1) has a high chance of matching while the second record (3|2) has really low chance of doing so ? -- Best Regards, Suranga ________________________________ Click here to unsubscribe<mailto:[email protected]?body=SIGNOFF%20openmrs-implement-l> from OpenMRS Implementers' mailing list _________________________________________ To unsubscribe from OpenMRS Implementers' mailing list, send an e-mail to [email protected] with "SIGNOFF openmrs-implement-l" in the body (not the subject) of your e-mail. [mailto:[email protected]?body=SIGNOFF%20openmrs-implement-l]
