Quantifying archaeology

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Quantifying archaeology

Stephen Shennan

Edinburgh University Press, c1997

2nd ed

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Previous ed.: 1988

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The second edition of this popular texbook introduces archaeology students to the use of statistics in their subject. Based on the author's long-running undergraduate course, it explains the relevant areas of statistics in terms that archaeology students can easily assimilate. This new edition includes a wider range of topics presented in greater depth, reflecting the subject's growing importance within archaeology.

Table of Contents

  • Quantifying descriptions
  • picture summaries of a single variable
  • numerical summaries of a single variable
  • an introduction to statistical inference
  • the Chi-squared test
  • beyond Chi-squared - describing association between two nominal scale variables
  • numeric variables - the normal distribution
  • relationships between two numeric variables - correlation and regression
  • when the regression doesn't fit
  • facing up to complexity
  • numerical classification in archaeology
  • simplifying complex spaces - the role of multivariate analysis
  • probabilistic sampling in archaeology.

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