QCA (version 1.0-2)

solveChart: Reduce the Redundant Prime Implicants

Description

While the minimization procedure finds a certain number of prime implicants, not all of them are necessary. This function reduces the number of prime implicants to a minimal solution.

Usage

solveChart(chart)

Arguments

chart

The prime implicants chart, a matrix with TRUE/FALSE values

Value

• a matrix containing row indices of all possible solutions

References

C. C. Ragin. The Comparative Method: Moving beyond Qualitative and Quantitative Strategies. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1987.

See Also

createChart

Examples

# the chart to be reduced
chart <- demoChart(c("A", "B", "c"), c("ABC", "Abc", "AbC", "aBc"))
prettyTable(chart)

# solution: first and second or first and third prime implicants
solveChart(chart)