Structuring the Calibration of Qualitative Data as Sets for Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)

Applying Qualitative Comparative Analysis ( QCA

Publisher's copyright statement: his is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Journal of Public Health following peer review. The de nitive publisher-authenticated version J. Warren, J. Wistow, and C. Bambra (2014) Applying qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) in public health: a case study of a health improvement service for long-term incapacity bene...

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 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...

Comparative Statistical Analysis of Qualitative Parametrization Sets

The problem of model parametrization is a core issue for all varieties of mathematical modelling in biology. This problem becomes more tractable when qualitative modelling is used, since the range of parameter values is finite and consequently it is possible to enumerate and evaluate all possible parametrizations of a model. If such an approach is undertaken, one usually obtains a vast set of p...

On the Duality of Cases and Variables: Correspondence Analysis (CA) and Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)

Three-Valued Modal Logic for Qualitative Comparative Policy Analysis with Crisp-Set QCA

Contradictory and missing outcomes are problems common to many qualitative comparative studies,based on the methodology of crisp-set QCA. They also occur in public policy analyses, e.g. if importantbackground variables are omitted or outcomes of new policies are technically censored. As a newsolution to these problems, this article proposes the use of three-valued modal logic, o...