matrcom: Calculates a common succession matrix

In sequence: Analysis of Sequences of Events

Description

Computes the succession matrix common to a set of sequences.

Usage

matrcom(x, printdata = FALSE, printdico = FALSE, printmat = FALSE, printcom = TRUE)

Arguments

x	seq: list of lists of class character. The sequences to analyse.
printdata	logical: print all sequences.
printdico	logical: print the dictionary.
printmat	logical: print each individual matrix.
printcom	logical: print the common succession matrix.

Details

The resulting matrix (succession: matrix) gives the number of times the element i (row) is followed by the element j (column).

Value

data.frame: the succession matrix with the label of items as first column.

Author(s)

Jean-Sebastien Pierre [e-mail]

References

Pierre, J. S. and C. Kasper (1990). The Design of Ethological Flow-Charts on Factorial Analysis Representations - an Application to the Study of the Male Mole-Cricket Sexual Courtship. Biology of Behaviour 15(3-4): 125-151.(in french)
Van der Heijden, P. G. M. 1986. Transition matrices, model fitting and correspondence analysis. In: Data Analysis and Informatics IV (Ed. by E. Diday), pp. 221-226. Elsevier Science Publishers.

See Also

flux, ca

Examples

data(seriseq)
matrcom(seriseq)

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