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  <dc:title>Necessary and Sufficient Condition Analysis</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package NSCA version 0.4.5</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Tests and quantifies bivariate statements in which a condition is
    both necessary and sufficient for an outcome. Necessity and sufficiency are
    estimated as two empty-space frontiers on diagonally opposite corners of
    the same scatter plot, using the 'NCA' package of Dul (2016)
    &lt;doi:10.1177/1094428115584005&gt; for the necessity side and 'SCAtools' for
    the sufficiency side. The two empty zones and the region between them tile
    the analytic scope, which yields the reported areas as one identity rather
    than as separate definitions: a weakest-component effect, a normalised
    geometric mean of the two components, the share of the scope the claims
    jointly rule out, and the data zone they still admit. The conjunction is
    decided by an intersection-union combination of the two directional
    permutation tests, optionally driven by a single shared permutation
    sequence so that a statistic of both components can also be tested. These
    are random-pairing screens rather than direct tests of a causal
    necessary-and-sufficient relation, no magnitude benchmarks are asserted
    for the joint indices, and a dual-threshold table separates outcome levels
    that are out of reach, admitted, or guaranteed. An ordinary least-squares
    line can be drawn alongside the two frontiers as a central-tendency
    reference; it is an average-effect summary and is never treated as a
    component of either claim.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: R (&gt;= 3.5.0)</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: ggplot2 (&gt;= 3.4.0), NCA (&gt;= 5.0.2), SCAtools (&gt;= 0.4.1),
stats, utils</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Suggests: testthat (&gt;= 3.0.0)</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Young Chan &lt;youngchanresearcher@gmail.com&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Young Chan [aut, cre]</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL (&gt;= 3)</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2026-10-10</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=NSCA</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.NSCA</dc:identifier>
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