Sequence Analysis and Optimal Matching Methods in Sociology

By A. Abbott, A. Tsay. 2000

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Subfields: General Social Sciences, Sociology and Political Science

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Optimal Matching Analysis and Life-Course Data: The Importance of Duration (2010, positive): “…Abbott and colleagues (Abbott, 1983, 1984, 1988, 1990; Abbott and Hrycak, 1990; Abbott, 1991a,b; Abbott and DeViney, 1992; Abbott, 1992, 1995; Abbott and Tsay, 2000; Abbott, 2000), the use of sequence analysis – in particular the optimal matching algorithm – is seeing a steady increase in…”
Comment (2015, background): “This is unfortunate, because, since its inception in sociology in the 1980s, sequence analysis has been a new way of understanding and capturing individual lives over time (Abbott 1995; Abbott and Tsay 2000).”
Off‐Scheduling within Dual‐Earner Couples: An Unequal and Negative Externality for Family Time1 (2007, methodology): “Optimal matching analysis, or simply optimal matching (OM), was introduced into the social sciences by Abbott and others (Abbott and Forrest 1986; Abbott 1995; for a review, see Abbott and Tsay 2000).”
Setting Cost in Optimal Matching to Uncover Contemporaneous Socio-Temporal Patterns (2010, methodology): “For a review of the different uses of OM in the social sciences, see Abbott and Tsay (2000).”
The De-Standardization of the Life Course: Are Men and Women Equal? (2009, methodology): “In order to uncover models of trajectories , a distance matrix was constructed using optimal matching ( Abbott , 2001 ; Abbott & Hrycak , 1990 ; Abbott & Tsay , 2000 ; Needleman & Wunsch , 1970 ) .”
Complexity of Categorical Time Series (2010, background): “This directly connects the so defined measure of complexity to the data-analytical tradition of sequence comparison (e.g., Abbott and Tsay 2000; Elzinga 2005; Sankoff and Kruskal 1983; Wang and Lin 2007).”
Residential Trajectories (2004, background): “…of whole-sequence approaches is that they help describe the extent to which diverse social processes produce empirically regular patterns of events (Abbott and Tsay 2000); only after determining that regularity exists in the sequential pattern can we ask questions about where such patterns came…”
Analyzing and Visualizing State Sequences in R with TraMineR (2011, neutral): “A review can be found in Abbott and Tsay (2000).”
De-standardization of Family-Life Trajectories of Young Adults: A Cross-National Comparison Using Sequence Analysis (2007, methodology): “In recent decades, sequence analysis, driven by the technique of Optimal Matching, has emerged as a tool for analysing life-course trajectories (e.g., Abbott and Tsay 2000 ).”
Value from gestalt: how sequences of competitive actions create advantage for firms in nascent markets (2010, background): “Sequence analysis is appropriate for our theoretical approach because it centers on examining entire sequences of events or units and not simply the individual data points (Abbott and Tsay, 2000).”