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This book is a comprehensive guide to qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) using R. Using Boolean algebra to implement principles of comparison used by scholars engaged in the qualitative study of macro social phenomena, QCA acts as a bridge between the quantitative and the qualitative traditions. The QCA package for R, created by the author, facilitates QCA within a graphical user interface. This book provides the most current information on the latest version of the QCA package, which combines written commands with a cross-platform interface. Beginning with a brief introduction to the concept of QCA, this book moves from theory to calibration, from analysis to factorization, and hits on all the key areas of QCA in between. Chapters one through three are introductory, familiarizing the reader with R, the QCA package, and elementary set theory. The next few chapters introduce important applications of the package beginning with calibration, analysis of necessity, analysis of sufficiency, parameters of fit, negation and factorization, and the construction of Venn diagrams. The book concludes with extensions to the classical package, including temporal applications and panel data. Providing a practical introduction to an increasingly important research tool for the social sciences, this book will be indispensable for students, scholars, and practitioners interested in conducting qualitative research in political science, sociology, business and management, and evaluation studies.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
這本書是一本關於使用 R 進行質性比較分析（QCA）的綜合指南。QCA 利用布爾代數實現學者在質性研究宏觀社會現象時所使用的比較原則，充當定量與定性傳統之間的橋樑。由作者創建的 R 的 QCA 套件，透過圖形用戶界面來促進 QCA 的實施。本書提供有關 QCA 套件最新版本的最新資訊，該版本結合了書面命令與跨平台界面。本書首先簡要介紹 QCA 的概念，然後從理論轉向校準，從分析轉向因子化，涵蓋 QCA 的所有關鍵領域。第一至第三章為入門章節，使讀者熟悉 R、QCA 套件及基本集合論。接下來的幾章介紹該套件的重要應用，從校準、必要性分析、充分性分析、擬合參數、否定與因子化，以及維恩圖的構建開始。本書最後探討了對經典套件的擴展，包括時間應用和面板數據。這本書為社會科學中日益重要的研究工具提供了實用的介紹，對於有興趣進行政治學、社會學、商業與管理以及評估研究的學生、學者和實務工作者來說，將是不可或缺的。
作者簡介
Adrian Dușa is a Romanian sociologist working for the University of Bucharest, at the Department of Sociology, where he teaches research methodology and social statistics. His main methodological research interest is the Qualitative Comparative Analysis, for which he authored a number of peer-reviewed articles and books (please see attached).
He is also an active R user and developer, having authored and submitted R packages to CRAN, two of which being dedicated to QCA. There is also another package called "venn" which draws Venn diagrams up to 7 sets, that is used in conjunction with the QCA package.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
Adrian Dușă 是一位羅馬尼亞社會學家，任職於布加勒斯特大學社會學系，教授研究方法論和社會統計學。他的主要方法論研究興趣是質性比較分析（Qualitative Comparative Analysis），並為此撰寫了多篇經過同行評審的文章和書籍（請參見附件）。
他也是一位活躍的 R 語言使用者和開發者，曾為 CRAN 編寫並提交 R 套件，其中兩個專門用於質性比較分析（QCA）。還有一個名為 'venn' 的套件，可以繪製最多 7 組的維恩圖，並與 QCA 套件一起使用。
