Gilbert Ritschard, PhD 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 TraMineR toolkit for the exploration of state and event sequence data.

Matthias Studer, PhD 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 TraMineR 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.

Provides new perspectives and methods for sequence analysis

Sequence Analysis: Where Are We, Where Are We Going?:Gilbert Ritschard and Matthias Studer.- Part I About Different Longitudinal Approaches in Longitudinal Analysis: Do Different Approaches in Population Science Lead to Divergent or Convergent Models?.- Daniel Courgeau.- Case Studies of Combining Sequence Analysis and Modelling: Mervi Eerola.- Part II Sequence Analysis and Event History Analysis: Glass Ceilings, Glass Escalators and Revolving Doors: Lydia Malin and Ramsey Wise.- Modelling Mortality Using Life Trajectories of Disabled andNon-Disabled Individuals in 19th-Century Sweden: Erling Häggstro¿m Lundevaller, Lotta Vikstro¿m, and Helena Haage.- Sequence History Analysis (SHA): Estimating the Effect of Past Trajectories on an Upcoming Event: Florence Rossignon, Matthias Studer, Jacques-Antoine Gauthier and Jean-Marie Le Goff.- Part III The Sequence Network Approach: Network Analysis of Sequence Structures: Benjamin Cornwell.- Relational Sequence Networks as a Tool for Studying Gendered Mobility Patterns: Klaus Hamberger.- Part IV Unfolding the Process: Multiphase Sequence Analysis: Thomas Collas.- Unpacking Configurational Dynamics: Sequence Analysis and Qualitative Comparative Analysis as a Mixed-Method Design: Camilla Borgna and Emanuela Struffolino.- Combining Sequence Analysis and Hidden Markov Models in the Analysis of Complex Life Sequence Data: Satu Helske, Jouni Helske, and Mervi Eerola.- Part V Advances in Sequence Clustering: Markovian-based Clustering of Internet Addiction Trajectories: Zhivko Taushanov and Andre¿ Berchtold.- Divisive Property-Based and Fuzzy Clustering for Sequence Analysis: Matthias Studer.- From 07.00 to 22.00: A Dual-Earner Couple's Typical Day in Italy: Ivano Bison and Alessandro Scalcon.- Part VI Appraising Sequence Quality: Measuring Sequence Quality: Anna Manzoni and Irma Mooi-Reci.- An Index of Precarity for Measuring Early Employment Insecurity: Gilbert Ritschard, Margherita Bussi, and JacquelineO'Reilly.- Subject Index.