Exploratory Mining of Life Event Histories
This reference note points to the chapter that motivates Sequenzo's event-sequence mining pages.
Citation
Ritschard, G., Bürgin, R., & Studer, M. (2013). Exploratory mining of life event histories. In J. J. McArdle & G. Ritschard (Eds.), Contemporary Issues in Exploratory Data Mining in Behavioral Sciences (pp. 221-253). Routledge.
Why This Chapter Matters for Sequenzo
Ritschard, Bürgin, and Studer show how event histories can be analyzed through frequent subsequences, discriminant subsequences, and event-sequence clustering. The chapter is useful when the analytical object is not only a state at each time point, but also the events and transitions that make up a life history.
Sequenzo's event-sequence pages build on this logic by documenting tools for creating event-sequence objects, finding frequent subsequences, counting occurrences, comparing groups, and visualizing event dynamics.