Issues in the conceptualization and measurement of events data

This paper discusses (1) the nature of the behavioral and actor variables, including four “ actor‐relationship “ models (unilateral and parallel actions, joint and sequential interactions) employed in events data studies, and (2) the categorization and measurement of events data. Several issues are treated relatively extensively, including the occasional incongruity between the type of variable or actor‐interaction model posited by the events data researcher and the limiting features of the available data, the nature of the dimensionality underlying some events data collections, similarities and differences between the “categorization” and “scaling” approaches to the measurement of events data, and the importance of coding various contextual features of events.

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