方法对比

	Sequence Analysis	Relational Event Model
领域	Sociology	Sociology
方法族	Process / pipeline	Regression model
起源年份	1980s–2000 (sociological consolidation)	2008
提出者	Andrew Abbott (introduced to sociology)	Carter T. Butts
类型	Holistic analysis of categorical state sequences over time	Event-history model for time-stamped relational events
开创性文献	Abbott, A., & Tsay, A. (2000). Sequence analysis and optimal matching methods in sociology: review and prospect. Sociological Methods & Research, 29(1), 3–33.	Butts, C. T. (2008). A relational event framework for social action. Sociological Methodology, 38(1), 155–200.
别名	social sequence analysis, life-course sequence analysis, categorical sequence analysis, trajectory analysis	REM, relational event framework, dynamic network event model, event-history network model
相关	5	4
摘要	Sequence analysis is a holistic method for studying ordered categorical trajectories — such as month-by-month employment states, family life-course events, or daily activity patterns — by treating each individual's whole sequence as a unit, measuring how dissimilar pairs of sequences are, and grouping them into a typology of characteristic pathways. Introduced to sociology by Andrew Abbott, it shifts attention from isolated transitions to the shape of entire life courses.	The relational event model (REM), introduced by Carter Butts in 2008, analyzes streams of time-stamped interactions — emails, radio calls, messages, citations — as a continuous-time event-history process. Rather than treating a network as a static set of ties, it models the instantaneous rate at which any sender directs an action at any receiver as a function of the history of past events, letting researchers test how prior interaction shapes future interaction.