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Fuzzy: A Program for Performing Qualitative Comparative Analyses (QCA) in Stata

Year: 2008

Type: article

Abstract: Qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) is an increasingly popular analytic strategy, with applications to numerous empirical fields. This article briefly discusses the substantive motivation and technical details of qca, as well as fuzzy-set qca, followed by an in-depth discussion of how the new program fuzzy performs these techniques in Stata. An empirical example is presented that demonstrates the full suite of tools contained within fuzzy, including creating configurations, performing a series of statistical tests of the configurations, and reducing the identified configurations.

Source: The Stata Journal Promoting communications on statistics and Stata

DOI: 10.1177/1536867x0800800106

Authors: Kyle C. Longest, Stephen Vaisey

Institution: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Language: English

Topic: Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2129588512

FWCI: 8.101

Cites: 20

Cited by: 327

Related to: 10