Further Readings:

Aassve, Arnstein, Francesco C. Billari, and Raffaella Piccarreta. 2007. “Strings of Adulthood: A Sequence analysis of Young British Women's Work-Family trajectories.” European Journal of Population 23:369-388.

Abbott, Andrew, and John Forrest. 1986. “Optimal Matching Methods for Historical Sequences.” Journal of Interdisciplinary History, XVI:3:471-494.

Abbott, Andrew, and Angela Tsay. 2000. “Sequence Analysis and Optimal Matching Methods in Sociology.” Sociological Methods & Research 29 (1):3-33

Abbott, Andrew. 1995. “Sequence Analysis: New Methods for Old Ideas.” Annual Review of Sociology 21:93-113.

Aisenbrey, Silke. 2000. Optimal Matching Analyse. Opladen: Leske & Budrich.

Biemann, Torsten, and Joachim Wolf. 2009. “Career patterns of top management team members in five countries: an optimal matching analysis.” The International Journal of Human Resource Management 20(5):975-991.

Biemann, Torsten, Anette E Fasang and Daniela Grunow. “Do economic globalization and industry growth destabilize careers? An analysis of career complexity and career patterns over time.” Forthcoming in November 2011 Issue of Organization Studies.

Billari, Francesco C. and Raffaella Piccarreta. 2005. “Analysing Demographic Life Courses through Sequence Analysis.” Mathematical Population Studies 12:1-27.

Brüderl, Josef, and Stefani Scherer. 2006. “Methoden zur Analyse von Sequenzdaten.” Sonderheft 44 der Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie:330-347.

Brzinsky-Fay, Christian, and Ulrich Kohler (eds). 2010. “Special Issue: New Developments in Sequence Analysis.” Sociological Methods & Research 38:359-364.

Brzinsky-Fay, Christian, Ulrich Kohler, and Magdalena Luniak. 2006. “Sequence analysis with Stata.” The Stata Journal 6(4):435-460.

Cox, N.J. 2004. “Stata tip 12: Tuning the plot region aspect ratio.” The Stata Journal 4(3):357-358.

Dijkstra, Wil and Trond Taris. 1995. “Measuring the Agreement Between Sequences.” Sociological Methods & Research 24(2):532-35.

Elzinga, Cees H. 2003. “Sequence Similarity: A Non-Aligning Technique.” Sociological Methods & Research 32(3):3-29.

—. 2008. “Algorithms for subsequence combinatorics.” Theoretical Computer Science 409(3):394-404.

—. 2010. “Complexity of Categorial Time-Series.” Sociological Methods & Research 38:463-481.

Fasang, Anette E. “Retirement Patterns and Economic Inequality.” conditionally accepted, Social Forces.

Fasang, Anette E. and Tim Liao. “Visualization in Sequence Analysis.” Under review.

Gabadinho, Alexis, Gilbert Ritschard, Matthias Studer, and Nicolas S. Müller. 2009. “Mining sequence data in R with the TraMineR package: A user's guide.” Technical report, Department of Econometrics and Laboratory of Demography, University of Geneva, Geneva, 2009b. URL http://mephisto.unige.ch/traminer/.

Gabadinho, Alexis, Gilbert Ritschard, Matthias Studer, and Nicolas S. Müller. 2011. Extracting and Rendering Representative Sequences. In Fred, A., Dietz, J.L.G., Liu, K. & Filipe, J. (eds) Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management. Series: Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS). Volume 128, pp. 94-106. Springer-Verlag.

Gauthier, Jacques-Antoine, Eric D. Widmer, Philipp Bucher, and Cedric Notredame. 2009. “How Much Does It Cost?: Optimization of Costs in Sequence Analysis of Social Science data.” Sociological Methods & Research 38(197-231).

—. 2010. “Multichannel Sequence Analysis Applied to Social Science Data.” Sociological Methodology forthcoming.

Halpin, Brendan. 2010. “Optimal Matching Analysis and Life-Course Data: The Importance of Duration.” Sociological Methods & Research 38:365-388.

Halpin, Brendan, and Tak Wing Chan. 1998. “Class Careers as Sequences: An Optimal Matching Analysis of Work-Life Histories.” European Sociological Review 14(2):111-130.

Han, Shin-Kap. 2010. “Redressing the Balance between Symmetric and Asymmetric Ties: A Survey.” Paper presented at the ASA Methodology Section Meeting Spring 2010, University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign.

Han, Shin-Kap, and Phyllis Moen. 1999. “Clocking Out: Temporal Patterning of Retirement.” American Journal of Sociology 105(1):191-236.

Hollister, Matissa. 2009. “Is Optimal Matching Suboptimal?” Sociological Methods & Research 38:235-264.

Kohler, Ulrich, and Christian Brzinsky-Fay. 2005. “Stata Tip 25: Sequence Index Plots.” The Stata Journal 5(4):601-602.

Lesnard, Laurent.. 2010. “Setting Costs in Optimal Matching to Uncover Contemporaneous Socio-Temporal Patterns.” Sociological Methods & Research 38:389-419.

Levine, Joel H. 2000. “But What Have You Done for Us Lately? Commentary on Abbott and Tsay.” Sociological Methods & Research 29(1):34-40.

Martin, Peter, Ingrid Schoon, and Andy Ross. 2008. “Beyond Transitions: Applying Optimal Matching Analysis to Life Course Research.” International Journal of Social Research Methodology 11:179-199.

Müller, Nicolas S., Alexis Gabadinho, Gilbert Ritschard, and Matthias Studer. 2008. "Extracting knowledge from life courses: clustering and visualization." in Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery, 10th International Conference DaWaK 2008, Turin, Italy, September 2-5, LNCS 5182, Berlin: Springer, 176-185.

Piccarreta, Raffaella, and Francesco C. Billari. 2007. “Clustering work and family trajectories by using a divisive algorithm.” Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A 170:1061-1078.

Piccarreta, Raffaella, and Orna Lior. 2010. “Exploring sequences: a graphical tool based on multi-dimensional scaling.” Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A 173:165-184.

Pollock, Gary. 2007. “Holistic trajectories: a study of combined employment, housing and family careers by using multiple-sequence analysis.” Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society) 170:167-183.

Rohwer, Götz and Heike Trappe. 1997. “Describing Life Courses. An Illustration Based on NLSY Data.” Polis working paper.

Scherer, Stefani. 2001. “Early Career Patterns: A Comparison between Great Britain and West Germany.” European Sociological Review 17:119-114.

Stovel, Katherine, and Marc Bolan. 2004. “Residential Trajectories: Using Optimal Alignment to Reveal the Structure of Residential Mobility.” Sociological Methods & Research 32(4):559-598.

Stovel, Katherine, Michael Savage, and Peter Bearman. 1996. “Ascription into Achievements: Models of Career Systems at Lloyds Bank 1890-1970.” American Journal of Sociology 102 (2):358-399

Tibshirani, Robert, Guenther Walther, and Trevor Hastie. 2001. “Estimating the Number of Clusters in a data Set via the Gap Statistic.” Journal of the Royal Statistical Society B 63:411-423.

Wiggins, Richard D., Christian Erzberger, Martin Hyde, Paul Higgs, and David Blane. 2007. "Optimal Matching analysis Using Ideal Types to Describe the Lifecourse: An Illustration of How Histories of Work Partnerships and Housing Relate to Quality of Life in Early Old Age.” International Journal of Social Research Methodology 10:259-278.

Wu, Lawrence L. 2000. "Some comments on "Sequence analysis and optimal matching methods in sociology: review and prospect.” Sociological Methods & Research 29:41-64.