Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Using R

ISBN-13: 9781107655577 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 448 str.

David L. Carlson

Opis

The first step-by-step guide to the quantitative analysis of archaeological data using the R statistical computing system.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Organization of the book; Part I. R and Basic Statistics: 2. Introduction to R; 3. Looking at data – numerical summaries; 4. Looking at data – tables; 5. Looking at data – graphs; 6. Transformations; 7. Missing values; 8. Confidence intervals and hypothesis testing; 9. Relating variables; Part II. Multivariate Methods: 10. Multiple regression and generalized linear models; 11. MANOVA and canonical and predictive discriminant analysis; 12. Principal components analysis; 13. Correspondence analysis; 14. Distances and scaling; 15. Cluster analysis; Part III. Archaeological Approaches to Data: 16. Spatial analysis; 17. Seriation; 18. Assemblage diversity; 19. Conclusions; 20. References.