Introduction
Event history analysis studies a collection of units, each moving among a finite (usually small) number of states. An example is individuals who are moving from unemployment to employment. In this article various examples of event history applications are presented, the concepts and advantages of event history analysis are demonstrated, and practical complications are addressed.
Examples of Continuous-Time, Discrete-State Processes
Event history analysis is the study of processes that are characterized in the following general way: (1) there is a collection of units (which may be individuals, organizations, societies, etc.), each moving among a finite (usually small) number of states ; (2) these changes (or events) may occur at any point in time (i.e., they are not restricted to predetermined points in time); and (3) there are time-constant and/or time-varying factorsinfluencing the timing of events. Examples are workers who move between unemployment and employment; men...
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Blossfeld H-P, Hamerle A, Mayer KU (1989) Event history analysis. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ
Blossfeld H-P, Rohwer G (2002) Techniques of event history modeling. New approaches to causal analysis. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, NJ/London
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Blossfeld, HP. (2011). Event History Analysis. In: Lovric, M. (eds) International Encyclopedia of Statistical Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04898-2_30
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