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Quantifying Archaeology /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Shennan, Stephen (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]
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  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Quantifying Description
  • 3. Picture Summaries of a Single Variable
  • 4. Numerical Summaries 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 Complexity: Multiple Regression and Correlation
  • 11. Classification and Cluster Analysis
  • 12. Multidimensional Spaces and Principal Components Analysis
  • 13. Correspondence Analysis and Other Multivariate Techniques
  • 14. Probabilistic Sampling in Archaeology
  • Bibliography
  • Appendix
  • Index