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- Title
Parameters of fit and intermediate solutions in multi-value Qualitative Comparative Analysis.
- Authors
Thiem, Alrik
- Abstract
Multi-value Qualitative Comparative Analysis (mvQCA) is a variant of QCA that continues to exist under the shadow of crisp and fuzzy-set QCA. The lack of support for parameters of fit and intermediate solutions has contributed to this undeserved status. This article introduces two innovations that put mvQCA on a par with its two sister variants. First, consistency and coverage as the two most important parameters of fit are generalized. Second, the concepts of easy and difficult counterfactuals for deriving intermediate solutions are imported. I demonstrate how to leverage these features in the QCA software package for the R environment. For researchers who do not use QCA, I explain how to exploit Veitch-Karnaugh maps instead for solving set-theoretic minimization problems of low to moderate complexity.
- Subjects
QUALITATIVE research; COMPARATIVE studies; FUZZY systems; SET theory; COUNTERFACTUALS (Logic)
- Publication
Quality & Quantity, 2015, Vol 49, Issue 2, p657
- ISSN
0033-5177
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11135-014-0015-x