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		Record Linkage for Public Health Surveillance // 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.
	</longdescription>
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