Sequential Analysis: A Guide for Behavioral Researchers

by John Mordechai Gottman , Anup Kumar Roy

• ISBN13: 9780521346658
• ISBN10: 0521346657
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1990-04-27
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface

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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.