CNA Software and Trainings

Software

All CNA software is written for the R environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is open source and can be downloaded from the links provided below. To run it, the latest version of R must be installed along with a suitable editor, for example, RStudio.

Base package cna

The cna package provides the base functionalities required to analyze data by means of CNA. The package vignette introduces to the theoretical foundation of CNA as well as to the main functions of the cna package.

• On 12/21/2023, update 3.5.6 has been released on CRAN.
• On 08/10/2023, update 3.5.4 has been released on CRAN.
• On 03/09/2023, update 3.5.1 has been released on CRAN.
• On 02/17/2023, version 3.5.0 of the cna R-package has been released on CRAN.
• On 07/08/2022, version 3.4.0 of the cna R-package has been released on CRAN.
• On 12/17/2021, version 3.3.0 of the cna R-package has been released on CRAN.
• On 06/14/2021, version 3.2.0 of the cna R-package has been released on CRAN.
• On 05/28/2021, version 3.1.0 of the cna R-package has been released on CRAN.
• On 11/06/2020, update 3.0.1 has been released on CRAN.
• On 09/13/2020, version 3.0.0 of the cna R-package has been released on CRAN.
• On 05/20/2020, update 2.2.3 has been released on CRAN.
• On 06/12/2019, update 2.2.2 has been released on CRAN.
• On 08/09/2019, update 2.2.1 has been released on CRAN.
• On 04/13/2019, update 2.2.0 has been released on CRAN.
• On 06/13/2018, update 2.1.1 has been released on CRAN.
• On 06/01/2018, version 2.1.0 of the cna R-package has been released on CRAN.

Add-on package frscore

The frscore package provides functions for calculating the fit-robustness of CNA models -- a robustness measure tailor-made for configurational methods. CNA roubstness scoring is discussed here.

• On 04/25/2024, version 0.4.0 of frscore has been released on CRAN.
• On 04/28/2023, version 0.3.1 of frscore has been released on CRAN.
• On 05/20/2022, version 0.2.0 of the frscore R-package has been released on CRAN.
• On 10/01/2022, update 0.1.1 has been released on CRAN.
• On 07/22/2021, version 0.1.0 of the frscore R-package has been released on CRAN.

Add-on package cnaOpt

The cnaOpt package provides various functions for optimizing consistency and coverage scores of models of configurational comparative methods as CNA and QCA. The underlying theory is presented here.

• On 07/08/2022, update 0.5.2 has been released on CRAN.
• On 12/17/2021, update 0.5.0 has been released on CRAN.
• On 09/14/2020, update 0.2.0 has been released on CRAN.
• On 09/12/2019, update 0.1.1 has been released on CRAN.
• On 21/10/2019, version 0.1.0 of the cnaOpt R-package has been released on CRAN.

Add-on package causalHyperGraph

The causalHyperGraph package draws causal hypergraph plots from models output by configurational comparative methods such as Coincidence Analysis (CNA) or Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA).

• On 03/21/2024, version 0.1.0 has been released on CRAN.

Trainings

previous

• Chicago (in-person), May 20 - May 23, 2024, Introduction to Causal Data Analysis and Modeling with Coincidence Analysis
• Prague (in-person), May 15 - May 18, 2023, Introduction to Causal Data Analysis and Modeling with Coincidence Analysis
• Bergen (in-person), May 30 - June 2, 2022, Introduction to Causal Data Analysis and Modeling with Coincidence Analysis
• Indianapolis (via Zoom), Aug. 3-5, 2021, Introduction to Causal Modeling with Coincidence Analysis
• Indianapolis (via Zoom), 2020, Advanced Topics in Configurational Causal Data Analysis
• Indianapolis (via Zoom), 2020, Beginners’ Introduction to Configurational Causal Data Analysis
• Arlington, 2019: Coincidence Analysis (CNA) Workshop at the D&I Conference
• Indianapolis, 2017: Configurational Research with QCA and CNA
• Konstanz, 2016: Configurational Research with QCA and CNA
• Geneva, 2015: Configurational Research with QCA and CNA