Advancing scientific inquiry through data reuse: Necessary condition analysis with archival data
Jan Dul,
Erik van Raaij,
Andrea Caputo
Abstract:This article discusses the importance of reusing existing data in research. In addition to reuse data for replication of earlier findings and for answering extended or new research questions, we propose a third application of data reuse: studying the phenomenon from an alternative causal perspective. We focus on the reuse of data with a necessity causal perspective (“if not X, then not Y”) as employed in necessary condition analysis (NCA). Such reuse of data offers additional insights compared with those obtai… Show more
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