Quantifying archaeology
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Quantifying archaeology
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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