Charles Ragin's Fuzzy Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) used for linguistic summarizations

Information Sciences

Volumn 202, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-23

  Mendel, Jerry M ^a   Korjani, Mohammad M ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

Fuzzy Set; Fuzzy Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis; Linguistic summarization; Rule; Sufficient condition

Indexed keywords

CAUSAL CONDITIONS; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SCIENTISTS; LINGUISTIC SUMMARIZATION; LOGICAL CONNECTIONS; QUANTITATIVE METHOD; RULE; SOCIAL SCIENTISTS; SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; ENGINEERS; LINGUISTICS;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 84860841913     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2012.02.039     Document Type: Article

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