Unifying Configurational Comparative Methods: Generalized-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis

Sociological Methods and Research

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 313-337

  Thiem, Alrik ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Boolean minimization; configurational methods; csQCA; fsQCA; mvQCA; Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899767573     PISSN: 00491241     EISSN: 15528294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0049124113500481     Document Type: Article

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