Jaro-Winkler distance¤
The Jaro-Winkler distance measure is a variation of the Jaro distance metric. It takes into account the prefixes of the strings being compared and assigns higher weights to matching prefixes.
For more information, please refer to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaro–Winkler_distance.
Characteristics¤
This distance measure is normalized, i.e., all distances are between 0 (exact match) and 1 (no similarity).
Compares single values (as opposed to sequences of values). If multiple values are provided, all values are compared and the lowest distance is returned.
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