Theories are one of the most important tools of science. Although psychologists discussed problems of theory in their discipline for a long time, weak theories are still widespread in most subfields. One possible reason for this is that psychologists lack the tools to systematically assess the quality of their theories. Previously a computational model for formal theory evaluation based on the concept of explanatory coherence was developed (Thagard, 1989, <doi:10.1017/S0140525X00057046>). However, there are possible improvements to this model and it is not available in software that psychologists typically use. Therefore, a new implementation of explanatory coherence based on the Ising model is available in this R-package.
| Version: | 0.2.0 |
| Imports: | IsingSampler, igraph, qgraph |
| Suggests: | testthat |
| Published: | 2020-11-27 |
| Author: | Maximilian Maier [aut, cre], Noah van Dongen [ths], Denny Borsboom [ths] |
| Maintainer: | Maximilian Maier <maximilianmaier0401 at gmail.com> |
| License: | MIT + file LICENSE |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| Materials: | README |
| CRAN checks: | IMEC results |
| Reference manual: | IMEC.pdf |
| Package source: | IMEC_0.2.0.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: IMEC_0.2.0.zip, r-release: IMEC_0.2.0.zip, r-oldrel: IMEC_0.2.0.zip |
| macOS binaries: | r-release (arm64): IMEC_0.2.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): IMEC_0.2.0.tgz, r-oldrel: IMEC_0.2.0.tgz |
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