Sequential analysis
Subtitle: a guide for behavioral researchers
By: John Mordechai Gottman, Anup Kumar Roy.
Contributors: Roy, Anup Kumar.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Cambridge [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
Subjects: Social psychology -- Methodology; Sequential analysis; Social interaction -- Statistical methods
Description: 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.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [251]-264.
Includes indexes.