CORA: An Open-Source Software Tool for Combinational Regularity Analysis

IF 3 2区社会学 Q2 COMPUTER SCIENCE, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS

Social Science Computer Review Pub Date : 2024-08-29 DOI:10.1177/08944393241275640

Lusine Mkrtchyan, Alrik Thiem, Zuzana Sebechlebská

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Abstract

Modern Configurational Comparative Methods (CCMs), such as Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Coincidence Analysis (CNA), have gained in popularity among social scientists over the last thirty years. A new CCM called Combinational Regularity Analysis (CORA) has recently joined this family of methods. In this article, we provide a software tutorial for the open-source package CORA, which implements the eponymous method. In particular, we demonstrate how to use CORA to discover shared causes of complex effects and how to interpret corresponding solutions correctly, how to mine configurational data to identify minimum-size tuples of solution-generating inputs, and how to visualize solutions by means of logic diagrams.

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CORA：用于组合规律性分析的开源软件工具

定性比较分析法（QCA）和巧合分析法（CNA）等现代配置比较法（CCM）在过去三十年里越来越受到社会科学家的青睐。最近，一种名为 "组合规律性分析（CORA）"的新 CCM 也加入了这一方法家族。在本文中，我们将为实现同名方法的 CORA 开源软件包提供软件教程。特别是，我们演示了如何使用 CORA 发现复杂效应的共同原因以及如何正确解释相应的解决方案，如何挖掘配置数据以识别解决方案生成输入的最小尺寸元组，以及如何通过逻辑图可视化解决方案。

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Social Science Computer Review 社会科学-计算机：跨学科应用

CiteScore

9.00

自引率

4.90%

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审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Unique Scope Social Science Computer Review is an interdisciplinary journal covering social science instructional and research applications of computing, as well as societal impacts of informational technology. Topics included: artificial intelligence, business, computational social science theory, computer-assisted survey research, computer-based qualitative analysis, computer simulation, economic modeling, electronic modeling, electronic publishing, geographic information systems, instrumentation and research tools, public administration, social impacts of computing and telecommunications, software evaluation, world-wide web resources for social scientists. Interdisciplinary Nature Because the Uses and impacts of computing are interdisciplinary, so is Social Science Computer Review. The journal is of direct relevance to scholars and scientists in a wide variety of disciplines. In its pages you''ll find work in the following areas: sociology, anthropology, political science, economics, psychology, computer literacy, computer applications, and methodology.