Sequential analysis: a guide for behavioral researchers

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 we...

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Main Author: Gottman, John Mordechai (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1990
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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 275 pages)
ISBN:9780511529696
DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511529696

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