QCA: A Package for Qualitative Comparative Analysis

Vesion 1.0 of the R package QCA brought a host of features that deserved a thorough description in a formal journal.

QCA
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Authors
Affiliations

Alrik Thiem

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich

Adrian Dușa

Department of Sociology, University of Bucharest

Published

2013

Abstract

This paper presents QCA, a package for performing Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). QCA is becoming increasingly popular with social scientists, but none of the existing software alternatives covers the full range of core procedures. This gap is now filled by QCA. After a mapping of the method’s diffusion, we introduce some of the package’s main capabilities, including the calibration of crisp and fuzzy sets, the analysis of necessity relations, the construction of truth tables and the derivation of complex, parsimonious and intermediate solutions.

Citation

BibTeX citation:
@article{thiem2013,
  author = {Thiem, Alrik and Dușa, Adrian},
  publisher = {R Foundation},
  title = {QCA: {A} {Package} for {Qualitative} {Comparative}
    {Analysis}},
  journal = {R Journal},
  volume = {5},
  number = {1},
  pages = {87-97},
  date = {2013-06-01},
  url = {https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2013/RJ-2013-009/index.html},
  doi = {10.32614/RJ-2013-009},
  issn = {2073-4859},
  langid = {en}
}
For attribution, please cite this work as:
Thiem, Alrik, and Adrian Dușa. 2013. “QCA: A Package for Qualitative Comparative Analysis.” R Journal 5 (1): 87–97. https://doi.org/10.32614/RJ-2013-009.