News archive for Coincidence Analysis
On October 10 and 11, 2024, Dr. Jonathan Freitas (UFMG/Brazil) conducted an introductory CNA course at the Clinical Hospital of the School of Medicine at the University of São Paulo (HC/FMUSP). The course brought together approximately 30 members of HC’s Digital Health team. The event received exceptional feedback, sparking follow-up research initiatives centered on the CNA method.
Jordan Becker, Paul Poast, and Tim Haesebrouck combined CNA with Regression Analysis in a mixed method approach to investigate why countries with disparate geography and perceptions of the international security environment agreed on NATO’s Wales Pledge on Defense Investment.
Deborah Cragun, Zachary M. Salvati, Jennifer L. Schneider, et al. use CNA to identify factors and causal chains associated with optimal implementation of Lynch syndrome tumor screening.
Michael Baumgartner and Christoph Falk published a paper entitled "Quantifying the quality of configurational causal models" in the Journal of Causal Inference. The paper introduces quantitative quality criteria for causal models output by CNA. Thereby, it broadens and sharpens the resources for CNA benchmarking.
Version 3.6.2 of the cna R package was released on CRAN, accompanied by a minor adjustment of the frscore package. Both updates should be installed.
Chava Pollak, Joe Verghese, Helena M Blumen use CNA to identify combinations of social factors that make a difference for frailty among older adults.
Marta Roczniewska, Ole Henning Sørensen, Susanne Tafvelin et al. use CNA to invesitigate the causes of how employees perceive the relevance of health interventions at the workplace.
Martyna Swiatczak and Michael Baumgartner investigate the conditions under which data imbalances are problematic for the performance of Coincidence Analysis (CNA).
Christoph Falk, Mathias Ambühl, and Michael Baumgartner released a new R package called causalHyperGraph on CRAN. It draws causal Hypergraphs from solution formulas of the CNA method.
Luna De Souter identifies shortcomings of the two main measures for evaluating CNA models, consistency and coverage, and introduces two new evaluation measures.
Mathias Ambühl and Michael Baumgartner released a new update of the cna R package on CRAN. The latest version is 3.5.4.
Dean, M, Tezak, A, Johnson, S, ... Cragun, D. used CNA to identify factors differentiating cancer risk management decisions among females with pathogenic/likely pathogenic variants in PALB2, CHEK2, and ATM. Accompanied by a podcast with Deborah Cragun.
Jessica Dodge et al. (2023) conducted a Coincidence Analysis investigating various factors influencing timely implementation of research findings into clinical practice in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA).
Laura J Damschroder et al. (2022) conducted a Coincidence Analysis of obesity treatment options within the Veterans Health Administration, which was selected "Editor's Choice" by Translational Behavioral Medicine.
A new version of the `frscore` extension package for `cna` is now available on CRAN.
Tim Haesebrouck applied the frscore routine in an exemplary manner to examine the conditions under which populist radical right parties support military deployment decisions in national parliaments: Haesebrouck T. (2023), The populist radical right and military intervention: A coincidence analysis of military deployment votes, International Interactions, doi: 10.1080/03050629.2023.2184815
John Rich, Edward Miech, Daniel Semenza and Theodore Corbin applied CNA in a new study investigating the effect of 10 firearm laws in US states on homocide and suicide rates.
In a series of news articles, Veli-Pekka Parkkinen informs about new developments concerning the frscore package for CNA robustness analysis. To make the best of frscore, users are encouraged to follow these updates.
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