Quantifying Archaeology / / Stephen Shennan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Shennan, Stephen,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (432 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781474472555; 9783110780475
• DOI: 10.1515/9781474472555
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Stephen Shennan.

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.