mvQCAbinTest: A Simple Binomial Test for Type I Error in mvQCA

In QCAfalsePositive: Tests for Type I Error in Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)

Description

A Binomial test for multi-value qualitative comparative analysis (mvQCA), designed to calculate the probability of a false positive given the number of hypotheses implicitly tested and the number of confirming cases.

Usage

mvQCAbinTest(freq.y, configs, total.configs, adj.method = "holm")

Arguments

freq.y	The frequency with which the dependent variable occurs in the sample (the number of 1s divided by the total number of cases).
configs	A list of configurations and the number of cases in which each configuration occurs.
total.configs	The total number of configurations used in the original mvQCA analysis. This will generally equal the number of lines in the truth table used for Boolean minimization.
adj.method	The method used to calculate adjusted p-values (see p.adjust for details).

Value

An object containing the results of the Binomial test.

Examples

test <- mvQCAbinTest(freq.y=0.7, configs=list(aB=5, bCD=3, Ce=2),
   total.configs=20)
summary(test)

Example output

Call:
mvQCAbinTest(freq.y = 0.7, configs = list(aB = 5, bCD = 3, Ce = 2), 
    total.configs = 20)

Counterexamples
    Number of cases   p-raw  p-adj  
aB                5 0.00243 0.0486 *
bCD               3 0.02700 0.5130  
Ce                2 0.09000 1.0000  
Total number of configurations: 20 
p-value adjustment method: holm

QCAfalsePositive documentation built on May 2, 2019, 6:40 a.m.