Exploring sequences: A graphical tool based on multi-dimensional scaling

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

Volumn 173, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 165-184

  Piccarreta, Raffaella ^a   Lior, Orna ^a  

^a BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coding of states; Dissimilarity; Length of sequences; Multi dimensional scaling; Optimal matching; Sequence analysis; Sequence plots

Indexed keywords

EID: 72249119703     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2009.00606.x     Document Type: Article

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