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Analyzing Relationships of Necessity Not Just in Kind But Also in Degree: Complementing fsQCA With NCA
Analyzing relationships of necessity is important for both scholarly and applied research questions in the social sciences. An often-used technique for identifying such relationships—fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA)—has limited ability to make the most out of the data used. The set...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6195096/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30443090 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0049124115626179 |
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description | Analyzing relationships of necessity is important for both scholarly and applied research questions in the social sciences. An often-used technique for identifying such relationships—fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA)—has limited ability to make the most out of the data used. The set-theoretical technique fsQCA makes statements in kind (e.g., “a condition or configuration is necessary or not for an outcome”), thereby ignoring the variation in degree. We propose to apply a recently developed technique for identifying relationships of necessity that can make both statements in kind and in degree, thus making full use of variation in the data: Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA). With its ability to also make statements in degree (“a specific level of a condition is necessary or not for a specific level of the outcome”), NCA can complement the in kind analysis of necessity with fsQCA. |
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spelling | pubmed-61950962018-11-13 Analyzing Relationships of Necessity Not Just in Kind But Also in Degree: Complementing fsQCA With NCA Vis, Barbara Dul, Jan Sociol Methods Res Regular Issue Articles Analyzing relationships of necessity is important for both scholarly and applied research questions in the social sciences. An often-used technique for identifying such relationships—fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA)—has limited ability to make the most out of the data used. The set-theoretical technique fsQCA makes statements in kind (e.g., “a condition or configuration is necessary or not for an outcome”), thereby ignoring the variation in degree. We propose to apply a recently developed technique for identifying relationships of necessity that can make both statements in kind and in degree, thus making full use of variation in the data: Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA). With its ability to also make statements in degree (“a specific level of a condition is necessary or not for a specific level of the outcome”), NCA can complement the in kind analysis of necessity with fsQCA. SAGE Publications 2016-02-03 2018-11 /pmc/articles/PMC6195096/ /pubmed/30443090 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0049124115626179 Text en © The Author(s) 2016 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Regular Issue Articles Vis, Barbara Dul, Jan Analyzing Relationships of Necessity Not Just in Kind But Also in Degree: Complementing fsQCA With NCA |
title | Analyzing Relationships of Necessity Not Just in Kind But Also in Degree: Complementing fsQCA With NCA |
title_full | Analyzing Relationships of Necessity Not Just in Kind But Also in Degree: Complementing fsQCA With NCA |
title_fullStr | Analyzing Relationships of Necessity Not Just in Kind But Also in Degree: Complementing fsQCA With NCA |
title_full_unstemmed | Analyzing Relationships of Necessity Not Just in Kind But Also in Degree: Complementing fsQCA With NCA |
title_short | Analyzing Relationships of Necessity Not Just in Kind But Also in Degree: Complementing fsQCA With NCA |
title_sort | analyzing relationships of necessity not just in kind but also in degree: complementing fsqca with nca |
topic | Regular Issue Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6195096/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30443090 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0049124115626179 |
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