Author: Gilbert Ritschard

Gilbert Ritschard, Ph D in Econometrics, is Professor Emeritus at the Geneva School of Social Sciences of the University of Geneva. He has carried out teaching and research in data analysis and statistical modeling for social sciences, including longitudinal data analysis, event history analysis, and sequence analysis. He is a co-editor of volumes 1 and 2 of “Advances in Knowledge Discovery”, (Springer, 2010, 2012), and of “Contemporary Issues in Exploratory Data Mining in the Behavioral Sciences” (Routledge, 2013). He published recently among others in Sociological Methods and Research, the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A, The American Statistician, and the Journal of Statistical Software. His recent applied contributions concern life course studies. He currently leads a methodological project within the Swiss NCCR “LIVES: Overcoming vulnerability, life course perspectives, ” and develops with his team the now worldwide used Tra Mine R toolkit for the exploration of state and event sequence data. Matthias Studer, Ph D in socioeconomics, is a Senior Researcher at the Swiss NCCR program “LIVES overcoming vulnerability: life course perspectives”” and a Lecturer at the Geneva School of Social Sciences of the University of Geneva. His research interests include quantitative methods for longitudinal data analysis, sequence analysis, gendered career inequalities, labor market and social policy evaluation. He is one of the Tra Mine R developers, and he recently published on Discrepancy Analysis in Sociological Methods /& Research and a comparison of sequence analysis distance measures in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A.