LoopAnalyst - A Collection of Tools to Conduct Levins' Loop Analysis
Performs Levins' loop analysis of qualitatively-specified
complex causal systems. Loop analysis makes qualitative
predictions of variable change in a system of causally
interdependent variables, where "qualitative" means direct
causal relationships and indirect causal effects are coded as
sign only (i.e. increases, decreases, no change, and
ambiguous). This implementation includes output support for
graphs in .dot file format for use with visualization software
such as 'graphviz' (<https://graphviz.org>). 'LoopAnalyst'
provides tools for the construction and output of community
matrices, computation and output of community effect matrices,
tables of correlations, adjoint, absolute feedback, weighted
feedback and weighted prediction matrices, change in life
expectancy matrices, and feedback, path and loop enumeration
tools.