Configural Frequency Analysis - Version 2000. A Program for 32 Bit Windows Operating Systems

Configural Frequency Analysis (CFA; Lienert, 1969; von Eye, 1990; von Eye, Spiel, & Wood, 1996) is a method that allows researchers to identify patterns (configurations) of variable categories that occur more often or less often than expected based on some chance model. In the years since 1995, CFA has developed at a rapid rate. Existing pro-grams, for instance the program published by Krauth (1993), even the recently pub-lished SAS CFA macro by Dunkl (1999), have not reflected these developments. This announcement describes a thorough update of the FORTRAN CFA program by von Eye (1998) which includes almost all of the new developments published thus far.