Qualitative Comparative Analysis with R A Users Guide /

• Main Authors: Thiem, Alrik. (Author), Du_a, Adrian. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Political Science, 5
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Statistics.; Social Sciences.; Political Science, general.; Social Sciences, general.; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4584-5

Social science theory often builds on sets and their relations. Correlation-based methods of scientific enquiry, however, use linear algebra and are unsuited to analyzing set relations. The development of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) by Charles Ragin has given social scientists a formal to...

Table of Contents:

• 1.Loading Neccessary Packages
• 2. Reading Data into R
• 3. Testing for Neccessity
• 4. Testing for Sufficiency 5
• Sufficiency: Parameters of Fit 6
• Plotting Results.