Identifying complex causal dependencies in configurational data with coincidence analysis

R Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 176-184

  Baumgartner, Michael ^a   Thiem, Alrik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

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EID: 84934765180     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.32614/rj-2015-014     Document Type: Article

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