Measuring the Nature of Individual Sequences
This reference note points to the article that motivates many of Sequenzo's sequence-characteristics indicators.
Citation
Ritschard, G. (2023). Measuring the nature of individual sequences. Sociological Methods & Research, 52(4), 2016-2049. https://doi.org/10.1177/00491241211036156
Why This Paper Matters for Sequenzo
Ritschard reviews indicators that describe individual state sequences, including length, visited states, transitions, entropy, turbulence, complexity, and measures that account for positive, negative, or ranked states.
Sequenzo's indicator pages use this framework to document how sequence summaries can complement plots, clustering, and group-comparison workflows. These indicators are especially useful when analysts need interpretable case-level features rather than a full pairwise distance matrix.