Sequential Analysis: A Guide for Behavioral Researchers
Cambridge University Press, 7/5/1990
EAN 9780521346658, ISBN10: 0521346657
Hardcover, 288 pages, 23.6 x 16 x 2.3 cm
Language: English
In the observational study of social systems, the major conceptual innovation of the last century was General Systems Theory. Yet the General Systems Theory conceptions of interacting social systems were doomed to remain at the prescientific level of metaphor until a set of statistical techniques were developed and applied. These techniques have come to be known as sequential analysis. Sequential analysis has as its first objective the detection of recurring sequential patterns in a stream of coding categories describing social interaction. These techniques can be employed to study the repertoires of individuals.
Preface
Reading this book quickly
Part I. Introduction
1. Advertisement
2. History
3. The language of sequential analysis
Part II. Fitting the Timetable
4. The order of the Markov chain
5. Stationarity of the Markov chain
6. Homogeneity
7. Everyday computations of stationarity, order and homogeneity
8. Sampling distributions
9. Lag sequential analysis
Part III. The Timetable and the Contextual Design
10. Log-linear models
11. Log-linear models
review and examples
12. A single case analysis of the timetable
13. Logit models and logistic regression
14. The problem of autocontingency and its solutions
15. Recent advances
a brief overview
16. A brief summary
References
Index.