In its standard formulation, Sequence Analysis aims at finding typical patterns in a set of life courses represented as sequences. Recently, some proposals have been introduced to jointly analyse sequences defined on different domains (e.g., work career, partnership and parental histories). We introduce measures to evaluate whether a set of domains are interrelated and their joint analysis justified. Also, we discuss about the quality of the results obtained using joint sequence analysis. In particular, we focus on cluster analysis and propose criteria to assess whether clusters obtained using a joint approach satisfactorily describe each domain.

Joint sequence analysis: association and clustering

Piccarreta, Raffaella
2017

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In its standard formulation, Sequence Analysis aims at finding typical patterns in a set of life courses represented as sequences. Recently, some proposals have been introduced to jointly analyse sequences defined on different domains (e.g., work career, partnership and parental histories). We introduce measures to evaluate whether a set of domains are interrelated and their joint analysis justified. Also, we discuss about the quality of the results obtained using joint sequence analysis. In particular, we focus on cluster analysis and propose criteria to assess whether clusters obtained using a joint approach satisfactorily describe each domain.
2017
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Piccarreta, Raffaella
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