TraMineR (version 1.4-1)

seqmeant: Mean durations in each state

Description

Compute the mean durations spent in each state of the alphabet for the set of sequences given as input.

Usage

seqmeant(seqdata, weighted = TRUE)

Arguments

seqdata

a sequence object as defined by the seqdef function.

weighted

if TRUE, the weights (weights attribute) attached to the sequence object are used for computing weighted mean durations.

Value

• An object of class stslist.meant. There are print and plot methods for such objects.

See Also

plot.stslist.meant for basic plots of stslist.meant objects and seqplot with type="mt" argument for more sophisticated plots of the mean durations allowing grouping and legend.

Examples

## Defining a sequence object with columns 13 to 24
## in the actcal example data set 
data(actcal)
actcal.lab <- c("> 37 hours", "19-36 hours", "1-18 hours", "no work")
actcal.seq <- seqdef(actcal,13:24,labels=actcal.lab)

## Computing the mean durations
seqmeant(actcal.seq)