factorize {QCA}R Documentation

Factorize a QCA solution

Description

This function finds all combinations of common factors of literals in a QCA solution

Usage

factorize(my.string, use.letters=TRUE,
          sort.by.literals=FALSE, sort.by.number=FALSE)

Arguments

my.string a string which contains a sequence of literals
use.letters specify whether conditions' names are simple letters
sort.by.literals sort results by the largest number of literals as common factor
sort.by.number sort results by the largest number of elements that have been factorized

Author(s)

Adrian Dusa
Romanian Social Data Archive
adi@roda.ro
Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, University of Bucharest
dusa.adrian@unibuc.ro

References

Ragin, Charles C. 1987 The Comparative Method. Moving beyond qualitative and quantitative strategies, Berkeley: University of California Press

See Also

qmcc, eqmcc

Examples

factorize("AB + AC + CD")

factorize("one*TWO*four + one*THREE + THREE*four", use.letters=FALSE)

[Package QCA version 0.5-3 Index]