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Expand Up @@ -56,8 +56,7 @@ input argument.

With the method ``index``, all possible (and unique) record pairs are
made. The method returns a ``pandas.MultiIndex``. The number of pairs is
equal to the number of records in ``dfA`` times the number of records in
``dfB``.
equal to the number of records in ``dfA`` choose ``2``.

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Expand All @@ -83,7 +82,7 @@ method can be used in the ``recordlinkage`` module.
...: len(candidate_links)

The argument "given\_name" is the blocking variable. This variable has
to be the name of a column in ``dfA`` and ``dfB``. It is possible to
to be the name of a column in ``dfA``. It is possible to
parse a list of columns names to block on multiple variables. Blocking
on multiple variables will reduce the number of record pairs even
further.
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