Strategies for Multidomain Sequence Analysis in Social Research
This reference note points to the article that motivates several choices in Sequenzo's multidomain sequence-analysis workflow.
Citation
Ritschard, G., Liao, T. F., & Struffolino, E. (2023). Strategies for multidomain sequence analysis in social research. Sociological Methodology, 53(2), 288-322. https://doi.org/10.1177/00811750231163833
Why This Paper Matters for Sequenzo
Ritschard, Liao, and Struffolino compare major strategies for constructing joint typologies from parallel life-course domains. The paper clarifies the assumptions behind multidomain costs, distance-additive approaches, combined-domain typologies, and merged combined types.
Sequenzo's multidomain pages use this framework to explain when to analyze domains jointly, when to compute domain-aware distance matrices, and how to interpret combined typologies without treating separate domains as independent by default.