Besides the ado provided by Brendan Halpin for Stata, is there a way to pursue an Optimal Matching using the R-package TraMineR
which weights OM’s elementary operations inversely with episode length [1]?
[1]: See Halpin, B. (2010) 'Optimal Matching Analysis and Life-Course Data: The Importance of Duration', Sociological Methods & Research 38(3): 365–388.