Package: starling
Title: Record Linkage for Public Health Surveillance
Version: 1.1.0
Description: Record linkage for public health surveillance datasets using either
    the Fellegi-Sunter probabilistic framework (via reclin2) or deterministic
    exact-key matching. Provides pre-linkage data quality auditing (preflight()),
    Medicare number checksum validation (check_medicare()), blocking variable
    construction (flock()), and the murmuration() linkage engine. murmuration()
    expresses linkage as a single cohort-to-event concept (linking a linelist of
    people to a dated stream of vaccination, hospitalisation, or case events within
    a before/during/after time window), with the historical four-code taxonomy
    (case-to-hospitalisation, vaccination-to-case, vaccination-to-hospitalisation,
    vaccination-to-event) retained as deprecated aliases. Also provides linkage
    weight distribution visualisation (murmuration_plot()) and threshold sensitivity
    analysis (perch()) with annotated AIHW, WA Data Linkage Unit, and PHRN reference
    benchmarks. perch() can be called standalone or triggered automatically
    mid-linkage via murmuration(perch_before_linking = TRUE). Includes synthetic
    datasets (cases_notifiable, vax_air) and three vignettes demonstrating the
    complete linkage workflow. Part of the aviary public health surveillance
    ecosystem.
Authors@R: person("Nicolas", "Smoll", email = "nicolas.smoll@health.qld.gov.au",
    role = c("aut", "cre"),
    comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-6923-9701"))
License: MIT + file LICENSE
Encoding: UTF-8
Depends: R (>= 4.1)
Imports: reclin2, dplyr, stringr, lubridate, rlang, ggplot2
Suggests: patchwork, plotly, phonics, mudnester, testthat (>= 3.0.0),
        knitr, rmarkdown
VignetteBuilder: knitr
URL: https://github.com/nrsmoll/starling
BugReports: https://github.com/nrsmoll/starling/issues
Config/roxygen2/version: 8.0.0
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-07-10 05:32:13 UTC; smolln
Author: Nicolas Smoll [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6923-9701>)
Maintainer: Nicolas Smoll <nicolas.smoll@health.qld.gov.au>
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2026-07-10 07:30:02 UTC
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