An introduction to crisp set QCA, with a comparison to binary logistic regression

Political Research Quarterly

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 662-672

  Grofman, Bernard ^a   Schneider, Carsten Q ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Comparative politics; Political methodology; Qualitative methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449711038     PISSN: 10659129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1065912909338464     Document Type: Article

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