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AA Bibliography on optimal matching / sequence analysis:

"Sequences of Social Events"
Historical Methods, 16:129-147, 1983.

"Event Sequence and Event Duration: Colligation and Measurement"
Historical Methods, 17:192-204, 1984.

"Optimal Matching Methods for Historical Data" (with John Forrest)
Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 16:473-496, 1986.

"Measuring Resemblance in Social Sequences" (with Alexandra Hrycak)
American Journal of Sociology, 96:144-185, 1990.

"The Optimal Matching Method for Anthropological Data: An Introduction and Reliability Analysis" (with John Forrest)
Journal of Quantitative Anthropology, 2:151-170, 1990.

"The Welfare State as Transnational Event: Evidence from Sequences of Policy Adoption" (with Stanley DeViney)
Social Science History, 16:245-274, 1992.

"Sequence Analysis"
Annual Review of Sociology, 21:93-113, 1995.

"Sequence Comparison via Alignment and Gibbs Sampling" (with Emily Barman)
Sociological Methodology, 27:47-87, 1997.

"Sequence Analysis and Optimal Matching Methods in Sociology" (with Angela Tsay)
Sociological Methods and Research, 29:3-33, 2000.

"Sequence Analysis" (with Heather MacIndoe)
Pp. in M Hardy and A Bryman Handbook of Methodology ?? Sage Publications.

For a general introduction to sequence algorithms, see Dan Gusfield, Algorithms on strings, trees, and sequences. Cambridge University Press 1997

Optimize Documentation Introduction Back to Top Bibliography (1997)

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