Still Lost in Translation! A Correction of Three Misunderstandings Between Configurational Comparativists and Regressional Analysts

Comparative Political Studies

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 742-774

  Thiem, Alrik ^a   Baumgartner, Michael ^a   Bol, Damien ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boolean algebra; linear algebra; qualitative comparative analysis; qualitative methods; quantitative methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 84968648360     PISSN: 00104140     EISSN: 15523829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0010414014565892     Document Type: Article

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