famform

This data set contains 5 sequences of family formation histories, used by Elzinga to introduce several metrics for computing distances between sequences. These sequences don't contain information about the duration spent in each state, they contain only distinct successive states. This data set is used in TraMineR's manual to check some results obtained by comparing them with those presented by Elzinga.

datasets

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. A user's guide can be
        found on TraMineR's web page.

famform: Example data set: sequences of family formation

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