Package: IMEC 0.2.0

Maximilian Maier

IMEC: Ising Model of Explanatory Coherence

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.

Authors:Maximilian Maier [aut, cre], Noah van Dongen [ths], Denny Borsboom [ths]

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# Install 'IMEC' in R:
install.packages('IMEC', repos = 'https://cloud.r-project.org')

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Exports:computeIMECcontradictexplaininitializeNetwork

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Citation

To cite package ‘IMEC’ in publications use:

Maier M (2020). IMEC: Ising Model of Explanatory Coherence. R package version 0.2.0, https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=IMEC.

Corresponding BibTeX entry: 

  @Manual{,
    title = {IMEC: Ising Model of Explanatory Coherence},
    author = {Maximilian Maier},
    year = {2020},
    note = {R package version 0.2.0},
    url = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=IMEC},
  }

Readme and manuals

This is a package that can be used to calculate the Ising Model of Explanatory Coherence (IMEC). IMEC is a tool for theory comparison. This package has the required functions to compare different theories and create compelling visualizations.