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TraMineR-package
Trajectory Miner: a Toolbox for Exploring and Rendering Sequences
Description
(Version: 1.8.11) Toolbox for the manipulation, description and rendering of sequences, and more
generally the mining of sequence data in the field of social sciences. Although the toolbox is primarily intended for analyzing state or event sequences that describe life courses such as family
formation histories or professional careers, its features also apply to many other kinds of categorical sequence data. It accepts many different sequence representations as input and provides tools for
converting sequences from one format to another. It offers several functions for describing and rendering sequences, for computing distances between sequences with different metrics (among which
optimal matching), original dissimilarity-based analysis tools, and simple functions for extracting
the most frequent subsequences and identifying the most discriminating ones among them. A user’s
guide can be found on the TraMineR web page.
Details
TraMineR provides tools for both state sequences and event sequences. The first step when using
the package is to define a state sequence object (with seqdef) if you want to explore state sequences,
and an event sequence object (with seqecreate) if you are interested in event sequencing.
State sequences are defined from a series of variables giving the states at the successive positions,
while event sequences are defined from (vertical) time stamped event data. The package, however, can handle many other different data organizations and provides tools to help converting state
sequences into event sequences and vice versa.
Author(s)
Alexis Gabadinho, Matthias Studer, Nicolas S. Muller, Reto Buergin, and Gilbert Ritschard
References
Gabadinho, A., G. Ritschard, N. S. Müller and M. Studer (2011). Analyzing and Visualizing State
Sequences in R with TraMineR. Journal of Statistical Software 40(4), 1-37.
Gabadinho, A., G. Ritschard, M. Studer and N. S. Müller (2009). Mining Sequence Data in R with
the TraMineR package: A user’s guide. Department of Econometrics and Laboratory of Demography, University of Geneva
Examples
## load the mvad data
library(TraMineR)
data(mvad)
## create a state sequence object from columns 17 to 86
mvad.seq <- seqdef(mvad[,17:86])