Parametric Event Sequence Analysis: An Application to an Analysis of Gender and Racial/Ethnic Differences in Patterns of Drug-Use Progression
参数事件序列分析:药物使用进程中的性别与族群差异
This article introduces novel statistical models for the sequence analysis of events. The models are formulated to analyze occurrence, association, and sequencing among events as an extension of log-linear models. A set of parameters characterizes marginal odds and odds ratios of frequencies summed across sequence patterns for each combination of the occurrence/nonoccurrence of events. These parameters are used for the analysis of the occurrence and association of events.…