cna - Causal Modeling with Coincidence Analysis

Provides comprehensive functionalities for causal modeling with Coincidence Analysis (CNA), which is a configurational comparative method of causal data analysis that was first introduced in Baumgartner (2009) <doi:10.1177/0049124109339369>, and generalized in Baumgartner & Ambuehl (2018) <doi:10.1017/psrm.2018.45>. CNA is designed to recover INUS-causation from data, which is particularly relevant for analyzing processes featuring conjunctural causation (component causation) and equifinality (alternative causation). CNA is currently the only method for INUS-discovery that allows for multiple effects (outcomes/endogenous factors), meaning it can analyze common-cause and causal chain structures.

Last updated 5 months ago

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causalHyperGraph - Drawing Causal Hypergraphs

Draws causal hypergraph plots from models output by configurational comparative methods such as Coincidence Analysis (CNA) or Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA).

Last updated 8 months ago

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cnaOpt - Optimizing Consistency and Coverage in Configurational Causal Modeling

This is an add-on to the 'cna' package <https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=cna> comprising various functions for optimizing consistency and coverage scores of models of configurational comparative methods as Coincidence Analysis (CNA) and Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). The function conCovOpt() calculates con-cov optima, selectMax() selects con-cov maxima among the con-cov optima, DNFbuild() can be used to build models actually reaching those optima, and findOutcomes() identifies those factor values in analyzed data that can be modeled as outcomes. For a theoretical introduction to these functions see Baumgartner and Ambuehl (2021) <doi:10.1177/0049124121995554>.

Last updated 2 years ago

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