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Set Theoretic Methods

Apart from the well established and ever evolving quantitative research methods, a relatively new method begins to gain momentum. …

Adrian Dușa

Comparative Analysis using Boolean Algebra

Comparative analysis is an important methodological tool in the social sciences, a via media between qualitative and the quantitative …

Adrian Dușa

Dispute Resolution and Collaborative Decision-Making: What Accounts for Their Effectiveness? The Case of Romania

Collaborative dispute resolution is essential in natural resource management in the process of negotiating solutions to environmental …

Alina Hossu, Ioan Cristian Iojă, Maria Pătroescu, Adrian Dușa, Anna M. Hersperger

Critical Tension: Sufficiency and Parsimony in QCA

The refutation of Baumgartner & Thiem (2017).

Adrian Dușa

QCA with R. A Comprehensive Resource

Starting with version 2.0, the QCA package in R witnessed substantial improvements in both the functionality of the written commands and also the Graphical User Interface. Considerable effort is made to maintain backwards compatibility with older versions of the package, so that previous publications could still be replicated with the current version, but the new features required an almost complete re-write of the previous book published at Springer.

Adrian Dușa

Consistency Cubes. A Fast, Efficient Method for exact Boolean Minimization

The most recent, cutting edge Boolean minimization algorithm.

Adrian Dușa

Enhancing Sensitivity Diagnostics for Qualitative Comparative Analysis: A Combinatorial Approach

Sensitivity diagnostics has recently been put high on the agenda of methodological research into Qualitative Comparative Analysis …

Alrik Thiem, Reto Spöhel, Adrian Dușa

R cu aplicații în statistică

Echipa R-omânia (www.r-project.ro) acționează ca o comunitate de utilizatori pentru popularizarea mediului de programare statistică R în lumea academică, dar și pentru persoane fizice, instituții și autorități publice, precum și pentru organizații comerciale și necomerciale din România.

Adrian Dușa, Bogdan Oancea, Nicoleta Caragea, Ciprian Alexandru, Nicolae Marius Jula, Ana Maria Dobre

Enhancing the Minimization of Boolean and Multivalue Output Functions With eQMC

Configurational comparative methods have gained in popularity among sociologists and political scientists. In particular, Qualitative …

Adrian Dușa, Alrik Thiem

Elemente de Analiză Comparativă

Elemente de analiză comparativă face o prezentare a unui domeniu metodologic bogat, care a cunoscut o explozie de interes în ultimii 25 …

Adrian Dușa

Facing the Future. European Research Infrastructures for the Humanities and Social Sciences

A book concerning the challenges and future advancements of European research infrastructures for the humanities and social sciences, relevant for the funding schemes of the Commission’s Framework Programs and for the ESRFI Roadmap update.

Adrian Dușa, Dietrich Nelle, Günter Stock, Gert G. Wagner

Facing the Future. European Research Infrastructures for the Humanities and Social Sciences

A common agenda for the European Research Infrastructures in the Social Sciences and Humanities

Adrian Dușa, Claudia Oellers, Simon Wolff

QCA: A Package for Qualitative Comparative Analysis

We present QCA, a package for performing Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). QCA is becoming increasingly popular with social …

Alrik Thiem, Adrian Dușa

Boolean Minimization in Social Science Research: A Review of Current Software for Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)

Besides an increase in the number of empirical applications, the widening landscape of tailored computer programs attests to the …

Alrik Thiem, Adrian Dușa

Qualitative Comparative Analysis with R. A user's guide

This book is now obsolete, being replaced by this new one (also published at Springer).

Alrik Thiem, Adrian Dușa

Qualitative Comparative Analysis with R. A user's guide

The Visual Analogue Scale. An Alternative to the Likert Type Response Scales. An Alternative to the Likert Type Response Scales

For about eight decades, research instruments in the social sciences have been orbiting around Likert’s proposal for his famous …

Adrian Dușa, Valeriu Frunzaru

Crisp-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (csQCA), Contradictions and Consistency Benchmarks for Model Specification

The purpose of this paper is to address and test two assumptions on which csQCA is based, namely that csQCA will generate …

Axel Marx, Adrian Dușa

Publicul și știința. Interese și percepții ale publicului privind cercetarea științifică și rezultatele cercetării

Proiectul STISOC - Știință și societate. Interese și percepții ale publicului privind cercetarea științifică și rezultatele cercetării …

Lazăr Vlăsceanu, Adrian Dușa, Cosima Rughiniș

A mathematical approach to the Boolean minimization problem

Any minimization problem involves a computer algorithm. Many such algorithms have been developed for the boolean minimizations, in …

Adrian Dușa

User manual for the QCA(GUI) package in R

Although performing all available function directly from R’s command line is possible, many users have expressed their desire for …

Adrian Dușa

QCA – Analiza Calitativă Comparativă. Aplicații, instrumente și potențial

Științele sociale și politice sunt împărțite, în ceea ce privește cercetarea, între două lumi: cercetarea calitativă și cercetarea …

Adrian Dușa

Creating data services in new democracies. Experiences from a case study and related neighbours

In Romania, as in other former communist countries, there has long been a deficit of information about social research and its data. In …

Adrian Dușa

The Romanian Social Science Data Archive

Adrian Dușa

A Data Archive for Social Sciences in Romania

Adrian Dușa