Quantifying Archaeology
1st Edition
Published on 7. August 2019
432 pages
978-1-4744-7255-5 (ISBN)
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.
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Stephen Shennan
Quantifying Archaeology
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07/1997
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Edinburgh University Press
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Content
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Quantifying Description
- 3 Picture Summaries of a Single Variable
- 4 Numerical Summariers of a Single Variable
- 5 An Introduction to Statistical Inference
- 6 Estimation and Testing with the Normal Distribution
- 7 The Chi-Squared Test and Measures of Association
- 8 Relationships between Two Numeric Variables: Correlation and Regression
- 9 When the Regression Doesn't Fit
- 10 Facing up to Complexitiy: Multiple Regression and Correlation
- 11 Classification and Cluster Analysis
- 12 Mutlidemsional Spaces and Principal Components Analysis
- 13 Correspondence Analysis and Other Multivariate Techniques
- 14 Probabilistics Sampling in Archaeology
- Bibliography
- Appendix
- Index
