Comparer des méthodes

	Optimal Matching Analysis	Social Mobility Table
Domaine	Sociology	Sociology
Famille	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Année d'origine	1970 (algorithm); 1980s (sociology)	1927 (concept); 1970s–1980s (modern analysis)
Auteur d'origine	Needleman & Wunsch (algorithm); Andrew Abbott (sociological use)	Pitirim Sorokin; refined by Hauser, Hout, Featherman
Type	Edit-distance dissimilarity between categorical sequences	Cross-classification of social origins by destinations
Source fondatrice	Abbott, A., & Tsay, A. (2000). Sequence analysis and optimal matching methods in sociology: review and prospect. Sociological Methods & Research, 29(1), 3–33.	Hauser, R. M. (1978). A structural model of the mobility table. Social Forces, 56(3), 919–953.
Alias	optimal matching, OMA, edit-distance sequence comparison, Levenshtein sequence distance	mobility table, intergenerational mobility table, origin-destination table, transition table analysis
Apparentées	5	5
Résumé	Optimal matching analysis measures how dissimilar two categorical sequences are by computing the minimum total cost of editing one sequence into the other through substitution and insertion/deletion operations. Borrowed from computer science and molecular biology and introduced to sociology by Andrew Abbott, it supplies the pairwise distances that underpin sequence analysis of careers, family histories, and other life-course trajectories.	A social mobility table is a cross-classification of individuals by their social origin (typically a parent's class or occupation) and their own destination class, forming the empirical foundation of intergenerational mobility research. Analyzing it separates how much people move between classes, distinguishes movement forced by changing class sizes from genuine exchange, and isolates the underlying origin–destination association that measures the openness of a society.