Comment

Abbott Andrew . 1992. “From Causes to Events: Notes on Narrative Positivism.” Sociological Methods and Research 20(4):428–55.

Abbott Andrew . 2005. “The Idea of Outcome in U.S. Sociology.” Pp. 393–426 in The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences, edited by Steinmetz G. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Blanchard Philippe Bühlmann Felix Gauthier Jacques-Antoine , eds. 2014. Advances in Sequence Analysis: Theory, Method, Applications. New York: Springer.

Elder Glen H. Johnson Monica Kirkpatrick Crosnoe Robert . 2003. “The Emergence and Development of Life Course Theory.” Pp. 3–19 in Handbook of the Life Course, edited by Mortimer J. T. Shanahan M. J. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum.

Fasang Anette E. Raab Marcel . 2014. “Beyond Transmission: Intergenerational Patterns of Family Formation among Middle-class American Families.” Demography 51(5):1703–28.

Gauthier Jacques-Antoine Widmer Eric D. Bucher Philipp Notredame Cédric . 2010. “Multichannel Sequence Analysis Applied to Social Science Data.” Pp. 1–38 in Sociological Methodology, vol. 40, edited by Liao Tim Futing . Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.

MacIndoe Heather Abbott Andrew . 2004. “Sequence Analysis and Optimal Matching Techniques for Social Science Data.” Pp. 387–406 in Handbook of Data Analysis, edited by Bryman A. Hardy M. London: Sage Ltd.

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(1), 167–83.

Studer Matthias . 2013. “Weighted Cluster Library Manual: A Practical Guide to Creating Typologies of Trajectories in the Social Sciences with R.” LIVES Working Papers, 24.

Wu Lawrence L. 2000. “Some Comments on ‘Sequence Analysis and Optimal Matching Methods in Sociology: Review and Prospect.’” Sociological Methods and Research 29(1):41–64.