{"id":265,"date":"2014-04-03T17:20:44","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T17:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teaching.sociology.ul.ie\/bhalpin\/wordpress\/?p=265"},"modified":"2014-04-19T14:45:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-19T14:45:00","slug":"new-sequence-analysis-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teaching.sociology.ul.ie\/bhalpin\/wordpress\/?p=265","title":{"rendered":"New Sequence Analysis Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I last released SADI, my sequence analysis tools for Stata, in November 2011. Since then I&#8217;ve made various improvements and additions, relating to ongoing work such as that reported in Dept Working Paper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ul.ie\/sociology\/pubs\/wp2012-02.pdf\">WP2012-02<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ul.ie\/sociology\/pubs\/wp2015-03.pdf\">WP2013-05<\/a> (the latter is an early version of a paper that is coming out in the book of the LaCOSA conference, due shortly).<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve written up a description of the package, including detailed worked examples, at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ul.ie\/sociology\/pubs\/wp2014-03.pdf\">WP2014-03<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To install the package, do:<code><br \/>\nnet from http:\/\/teaching.sociology.ul.ie\/sadi<br \/>\nnet install sadi<br \/>\nssc install moremata<\/code><\/p>\n<p>The package is centred on the idea of calculating pairwise distances between sequences, where sequences are longitudinal (or at least linear) structures in discrete time, and a discrete state space. The key measure is Optimal Matching Distance, but the package includes a number of other measures, as well as tools for summarising and displaying sequence data.<\/p>\n<p>It is fast, because it uses C plugins for key parts. This means it will only work under Windows and Linux (32- and 64-bit). If you would like to compile the plugins for another architecture (e.g., Apple) please contact me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I last released SADI, my sequence analysis tools for Stata, in November 2011. Since then I&#8217;ve made various improvements and additions, relating to ongoing work such as that reported in Dept Working Paper WP2012-02 and WP2013-05 (the latter is an early version of a paper that is coming out in the book of the LaCOSA &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/teaching.sociology.ul.ie\/bhalpin\/wordpress\/?p=265\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Sequence Analysis Tools<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teaching.sociology.ul.ie\/bhalpin\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teaching.sociology.ul.ie\/bhalpin\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teaching.sociology.ul.ie\/bhalpin\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teaching.sociology.ul.ie\/bhalpin\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teaching.sociology.ul.ie\/bhalpin\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/teaching.sociology.ul.ie\/bhalpin\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271,"href":"https:\/\/teaching.sociology.ul.ie\/bhalpin\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions\/271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teaching.sociology.ul.ie\/bhalpin\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teaching.sociology.ul.ie\/bhalpin\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teaching.sociology.ul.ie\/bhalpin\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}