Model Ambiguities in Configurational Comparative Research

Sociological Methods and Research

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 954-987

  Baumgartner, Michael ^a   Thiem, Alrik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Boolean models; causal modeling; configurational methods; model ambiguities; Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA); set theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 85032386434     PISSN: 00491241     EISSN: 15528294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0049124115610351     Document Type: Article

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