Supporting materials

Recommended reading

  • Liao, T.F., Bolano, D., Brzinsky-Fay, C., Cornwell, B., Fasang, A.E., Helske, S., Piccarreta, R., Raab, M., Ritschard, G., Struffolino, E. & Studer, M. (2022) Sequence analysis: Its past, present, and future. Social Science Research. 107:1-21
  • Ritschard, G., Bürgin, R. & Studer, M. (2013) Exploratory Mining of Life Event Histories In: McArdle, J.J. & Ritschard, G. eds. Contemporary Issues in Exploratory Data Mining in the Behavioral Sciences. pp. 221-253. New York: Routledge
  • Ritschard, G., Liao, T.F. & Struffaolino, E. (2023) Strategies for Multidomain Sequence Analysis in Social Research. Sociological Methodology. 53(2):288-322
  • Fasang, A.E., & Liao, T.F. (2014) Visualizing Sequences in the Social Sciences: Relative Frequency Sequence Plots. Sociological Methods & Research. 43(4):643-676
  • Ritschard, G. (2023) Measuring the Nature of Individual Sequences. Sociological Methods & Research. 52(4):2016-2049
  • Studer, M. & Ritschard, G. (2016) What matters in differences between life trajectories: a comparative review of sequence dissimilarity measures. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society. 179(2):481-511
  • Laurent, L. (2010) Setting Cost in Optimal Matching to Uncover Contemporaneous Socio-Temporal Patterns. Sociological Research & Methods. 38(3):389-419
  • Abbott, A. & Tsay, A. (2000) Sequence Analysis and Optimal Matching Methods in Sociology: Review and Prospect. Sociological Methods & Research. 29(1):3-33
  • Aldenderfer, M.S. & Blashfield, R.K. (1984) Cluster analysis. Newbury Park, Calif.; London: SAGE
  • Kaufman, L. & Rousseeuw, P.J. (2005) Finding groups in data: An introduction to cluster analysis. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley
  • Gabadinho, A., Ritschard, G., Müller, N. & Studer, M. (2011) Analyzing and Visualizing State Sequences in R with TraMineR. Journal of Statistical Software. 40(4):1–37
  • Gabadinho, A. & Ritschard, G. (2013) Searching for typical life trajectories applied to child birth histories. In: Lévy, R. & Widmer, E. eds. Gendered life courses. pp.287-312. Vienna: LIT
  • Lim, S., Nash, D., Hollod, L., Harris, T.G., Lennon, M.C. & Thorpe, L.E. (2015) Influence of Jail Incarceration and Homelessness Patterns on Engagement in HIV Care and HIV Viral Suppression among New York City Adults Living with HIV/AIDS. PLoS ONE. 10(11):e0141912
  • Ritschard, G., Liao, T. & Struffolino, E. (2023) Strategies for multidomain sequence analysis in social research. Sociological Methodology. 53(2):288-322
  • Clapham, D., Mackie, P., Orford, S., Thomas, I. & Buckley, K. (2014) The Housing Pathways of Young People in the UK. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space. 46(8):2016-2031