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Comparing accuracy of Soundex, Levenshtein Distance (LD), and Fuzzy-Match on the Challenge Data Set of Marshfield Physician Names (N=68).
| Search Engines | # Found | Percentage |
| Default Search Engine | 0 | 0% |
| Soundex | 16 | 24% |
| Fuzzy-match with simple LD (top one) | 40 | 59% |
| Fuzzy-match with customized LD (top one) | 48 | 71% |
| Fuzzy-match with simple LD (top ten matches) | 52 | 77% |
| Fuzzy-match with customized LD (top ten matches) | 61 | 90% |
