Mining sequence data in R with TraMineR: A user's guide. Alexis Gabadinho, Gilbert Ritschard, Matthias Studer, and Nicolas Müller.The analysis of early life courses: complex descriptions of the transition to adulthood. Sociological Methods and Research, 29(1):3-33, 2000 (with discussion, pp 34-76). Sequence analysis and optimal matching methods in sociology, Review and prospect. The data set presented in will be one of those used for computer exercises.
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More recently, sequences are scrutinized in other fields of social sciences such as geography, archaeology, and economics This workshop covers longitudinal data management (only briefly) and basic techniques of sequence analysis to (1) describe and (2) visualize sequences, (3) to identify typical patterns among a set of sequences using cluster analysis, and (4) to examine the antecedents and consequences of these patterns. Sequence analysis has attracted increasing attention in the social sciences for the analysis of longitudinal life-course data, as labor market careers, transitions to adulthood, or family formation. These tools were first introduced to social sciences in the form of optimal matching analysis by Andrew Abbott who imported this approach from biology and computer science. Sequence analysis is a set of tools to analyze sequences of categorical states that represent processes that unfold over time.
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This workshop introduces sequence analysis for social science research. With Marcel Raab (University of Mannheim).