Clustering work and family trajectories by using a divisive algorithm

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 170, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1061-1078

  Piccarreta, Raffaella ^a   Billari, Francesco C ^a  

^a BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Classification and regression trees; Cluster analysis; Divisive algorithms; Employment and family trajectories; Life course; Sequence analysis; Ward's algorithm

Indexed keywords

EID: 34848825083     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2007.00495.x     Document Type: Article

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