Analyzing and visualizing state sequences in R with TraMineR

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1-37

  Gabadinho, Alexis ^a   Ritschard, Gilbert ^a   Müller, Nicolas S ^a   Studer, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Categorical sequences; Dissimilarities; Optimal matching; R; Representative sequences; Sequence complexity; Sequence visualization; State sequences

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961238252     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15487660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v040.i04     Document Type: Article

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