TraMineR (version 1.6-2)

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, with.missing=FALSE)

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.

with.missing

if set to TRUE, cumulated durations are also computed for the missing status (gaps in the sequences). See seqdef on options for handling missing values when creating sequence objects.

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)

## Example with weights