Questions tagged [sequence-analysis]
Sequence analysis (in the social sciences) is the analysis of how people or other units of study move from one state to another (for example, single-->married-->widowed, unemployed-->employed-->retired) over the course of their lifespan.
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Fitting a VLMC to very long sequences
I am trying to fit a VLMC to a dataset where the longest sequence is 296 states. I do it as shown below:
# Load libraries
library(PST)
library(RCurl)
library(TraMineR)
# Load and transform data
x &...
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How to get the largest possible column sequence with the least possible row NAs from a huge matrix?
I want to select columns from a data frame so that the resulting continuous column-sequences are as long as possible, while the number of rows with NAs is as small as possible, because they have to be ...
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Traminer substitution cost
I have a logical problem with the transition cost matrix. I am working on sequences dissimilarity using the R package Traminer.
I try to give you a simple example (very simple, but I hope useful to ...
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How to compute dissimilarities between sequences when sequences contain gaps?
I want to cluster sequences with optimal matching with TraMineR::seqdist() from data that contains missings, i.e. sequences containing gaps.
library(TraMineR)
data(ex1)
sum(is.na(ex1))
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sq &...
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