This is a comparative study of the multiple ways of measuring dissimilarities between state
sequences. The originality of the study is the focus put on the differences between …

Historical research on domestic servants has a long tradition. Research, however, has
become more systematic from the 1960s onwards thanks to social historians, historians …

In this article the authors draw attention to the most recent and promising developments of
sequence analysis. Taking methodological developments in life course sociology as the …

The life course and human development has flourished as a field of study during the past
quarter century, extending across substantive and theoretical boundaries (Mortimer & …

Nowadays, event history analysis can draw on a well-established set of statistical tools for
the description and causal analysis of event history data. This second edition of our book …

mills_intro surv analysis.indd Page 1 Melinda Mills M ills Introducing Survival and Event History
Analysis Introducing Survival Analysis and Event H istory Analysis Page 2 INTRODUCING …

Family life courses are thought to have become more complex in Europe. This study uses
SHARELIFE data from 14 European countries to analyze the family life courses of …

This study addresses the question of de-standardized life courses from a gender
perspective. Multi-channel sequence analysis is used to characterise the domains of work …

Visualization is a potentially powerful tool for exploration and complexity reduction of
categorical sequence data. This article discusses currently available sequence visualization …

Categorical time series, covering comparable time spans, are often quite different in a
number of aspects: the number of distinct states, the number of transitions, and the …