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ArticleEntropy (Basel, Switzerland)2026

Knowing What We Don't Know: Model-Based Uncertainty Decomposition for Categorical Sequences.

Marc A Scott, Fulvia Pennoni, Ignacio Bórquez

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Article in Entropy (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Marc A ScottDepartment of Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1537-0894
Fulvia PennoniDepartment of Statistics and Quantitative Methods, University of Milano-Bicocca, Via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi 8, 20126 Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-6331-7211
Ignacio BórquezDepartment of Population Health, Center for Opioid Epidemiology and Policy, Grossman School of Medicine, New York University, New York, NY 10016, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3746-578X

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

State sequence analysis of longitudinal categorical data seeks to synthesize pathways through different dimensions of the life course for descriptive, associative and predictive purposes. Given the number and variety of patterns in such data, measures of the dynamic features of sequences are used to characterize them. One, based on the information-theoretic notion of entropy, measures the uncertainty in the state that will be active at a given time. We customize its use to establish the extent to which we are ignorant, or unsure, of

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entropylife course analysisMarkov chain modelsmaximum likelihood estimationstate sequence analysis

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PMID42511340
PMCPMC13409395

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