R: Sequence of modal states

seqmodst {TraMineR} | R Documentation

## Sequence of modal states

### Description

Sequence made of the modal state at each position.

### Usage

    seqmodst(seqdata, weighted=TRUE, with.missing=FALSE)

### Arguments

`seqdata` | a state sequence object as defined by the `seqdef` function.
`weighted` | if `TRUE`, distributions account for the weights assigned to the state sequence object (see `seqdef`). Set as `FALSE` if you want ignore the weights.
`with.missing` | If `FALSE` (default value), returned distributions ignore missing values.

### Details

In case of multiple modal states at a given position, the first one is taken. Hence, the result may vary with the alphabet order.

### Value

an object of class stslist.modst. This is actually a state sequence object (containing a single state sequence) with additional attributes, among which the `Frequencies` attribute containing the transversal frequency of each state in the sequence. There are print and plot methods for such objects. More sophisticated plots can be produced with the `seqplot` function.

### Author(s)

Alexis Gabadinho

### References

Gabadinho, A., G. Ritschard, N. S. Müller and M. Studer (2011). Analyzing and Visualizing State Sequences in R with TraMineR. Journal of Statistical Software 40(4), 1-37.

### See Also

`plot.stslist.modst` for default plot method, `seqplot` for higher level plots.

### Examples

    ## Defining a sequence object with the data in columns 10 to 25
    ## (family status from age 15 to 30) in the biofam data set
    data(biofam)
    biofam.lab <- c("Parent", "Left", "Married", "Left+Marr",
    "Child", "Left+Child", "Left+Marr+Child", "Divorced")
    biofam.seq <- seqdef(biofam, 10:25, labels=biofam.lab)

    ## Modal state sequence
    seqmodst(biofam.seq)

    ## Examples using weights and with.missing arguments
    data(ex1)
    ex1.seq <- seqdef(ex1, 1:13, weights=ex1$weights)

    seqmodst(ex1.seq)
    seqmodst(ex1.seq, weighted=FALSE)
    seqmodst(ex1.seq, weighted=FALSE, with.missing=TRUE)

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