mvad

The data comes from a study by McVicar and Anyadike-Danes on transition from school to work. The data consist of static background characteristics and a time series sequence of 72 monthly labour market activities for each of 712 individuals in a cohort survey. The individuals were followed up from July 1993 to June 1999.

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This package is a toolbox for sequence manipulation, description, rendering and more generally sequence data mining in the field of social sciences. Though it is primarily intended for analyzing state or event sequences that describe life courses such as family formation histories or professional careers its features apply indeed also to many other kinds of categorical sequence data. It accepts as input many different sequence representations and provides tools for translating sequences from one format to another. It offers several statistical functions for describing and rendering sequences, for computing distances between sequences with different metrics among which optimal matching, the longest common prefix and the longest common subsequence, and simple functions for extracting the most frequent subsequences and identifying the most discriminating ones among them.

Alexis Gabadinho

TraMineR

Sequences and trajectories mining for social scientists

mvad function

A data frame containing 712 rows and 86 variables.

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McVicar, Duncan and Anyadike-Danes, Michael

mvad: Example data set: Transition from school to work

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