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  <dc:title>Direction-Aware Sufficiency Condition Analysis</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package SCAtools version 0.4.3</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Provides a direction-aware interface for analysing bivariate
    sufficiency statements from empty-space frontier patterns. Logical
    sufficiency directions (high or low levels of a condition and outcome) are
    kept separate from the physical location of the empty corner in the
    scatter plot. Computation is delegated to version 5 of the 'NCA' package
    based on Dul (2016) &lt;doi:10.1177/1094428115584005&gt;, using the
    contraposition between necessity and sufficiency. Threshold tables are
    computed in actual units and converted by this package, so percentage,
    percentile and standard-deviation scales follow one stated reporting
    convention in every sufficiency direction. Includes tidy summaries,
    threshold rules, plots, random-data generation, permutation tests, and
    power analysis. An ordinary least-squares line can be drawn beside the
    frontier as a central-tendency reference; it is an average-effect summary
    and never a component of a sufficiency claim. An empty-space pattern alone
    does not establish causality or deterministic sufficiency.</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), 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>2026-09-18</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=SCAtools</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.SCAtools</dc:identifier>
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