Nonoptimal Alignment

Kees van DRIEL and Paul Oosterveld
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Kees van DRIEL: Delft University of Technology
Paul Oosterveld: Centrum voor Marketing Analyses

Sociological Methods & Research, 2001, vol. 29, issue 4, 524-531

Abstract: An algorithm to measure agreement between sequences as proposed by Dijkstra and Taris is discussed. It is concluded that the “optimal alignment†algorithm does not necessarily produce the optimal solution, that is, the minimal distance between two sequences.

Date: 2001
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