Todd L. VanPool, Robert D. Leonard

Quantitative Analysis in Archa

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This text is an ideal introduction to the use of quantitative methods in archaeology. Statistical techniques are presented in a clear and straightforward manner throughout, and the careful balance between introduction of key concepts and their application to archaeological data is perfectly suited for both students and professionals in the field.

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Quantitative Analysis in Archaeology introduces the application of quantitative methods in archaeology. It outlines conceptual and statistical principles, illustrates their application, and provides problem sets for practice.
Discusses both methodological frameworks and quantitative methods of archaeological analysis
Presents statistical material in a clear and straightforward manner ideal for students and professionals in the field
Includes illustrative problem sets and practice exercises in each chapter that reinforce practical application of quantitative analysis

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 169mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 651g
• ISBN-13: 9781405189507
• ISBN-10: 1405189509
• Artikelnr.: 31187584

Autorenporträt

Todd L. VanPool is Assistant Professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, Columbia. He is the co-author with Christine S. VanPool of Signs of the Casas Grandes Shamans (2007), Religion in the Prehispanic Southwest (2006) and Essential Tensions in Archaeological Method and Theory (2003). Robert D. Leonard is retired from the Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, where he taught for 17 years. He is currently the co-owner and a project director of Human Inquiry, a consulting firm that uses an interdisciplinary anthropological approach to help improve building designs.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables. List of Figures. List of Equations. Acknowledgments. 1.
Quantifying Archaeology. 2. Data. 3. Characterizing Data Visually.
4.Characterizing Data Numerically: Descriptive Statistics. 5. An
Introduction to Probability. 6. Putting Statistics to Work: The Normal
Distribution. 7. Hypothesis Testing I: An Introduction. 8. Hypothesis
Testing II: Confidence Limits, the t-Distribution, and One-Tailed Tests. 9.
Hypothesis Testing III: Power. 10. Analysis of Variance and the
F-Distribution. 11. Linear Regression and Multivariate Analysis. 12.
Correlation. 13. Analysis of Frequencies. 14. An Abbreviated Introduction
to Nonparametric and Multivariate Analysis. 15. Factor Analysis and
Principal Component Analysis. 16. Sampling, Research Designs, and the
Archaeological Record. Some Concluding Thoughts. References. Appendix A.
Areas under a Standardized Normal Distribution. Appendix B. Critical Values
for the Student's t-Distribution. Appendix C. Critical Values for the
F-Distribution. Appendix D. Critical Values for the Chi-Square
Distribution. Appendix E. Critical Values for the Wilcoxon Two-Sample
U-Test.