Is one distance better than the other?
The Levenshtein distance between "Rcik Caplan"
and "Rick Caplan"
is 2
, the q-gram distance is 6
. Does this mean the Levenshtein distance is working better in this example than the q-gram method?
This exercise is part of the course
Intermediate Regular Expressions in R
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