cna
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Causal Modeling with Coincidence Analysis
Mathias Ambuehl, Michael Baumgartner
Last update: 21 December 2023
Software version identifier: 3.5.1, 0.1-3, 1.0-0, 1.0-1, 1.0-2, 1.0-3, 2.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.2.0, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.3, 3.0.0, 3.0.1, 3.1.0, 3.2.0, 3.3.0, 3.4.0, 3.5.0, 3.5.4, 3.5.6
Source code repository: https://github.com/cran/cna
Copyright license: GNU General Public License, version 3.0, GNU General Public License, version 2.0
Provides comprehensive functionalities for causal modeling with Coincidence Analysis (CNA), which is a configurational comparative method of causal data analysis that was first introduced in Baumgartner (2009) <doi:10.1177/0049124109339369>, and generalized in Baumgartner & Ambuehl (2018) <doi:10.1017/psrm.2018.45>. CNA is designed to recover INUS-causation from data, which is particularly relevant for analyzing processes featuring conjunctural causation (component causation) and equifinality (alternative causation). CNA is currently the only method for INUS-discovery that allows for multiple effects (outcomes/endogenous factors), meaning it can analyze common-cause and causal chain structures.
