Read more
Informationen zum Autor Grant S. McCall is the Executive Director of the Center for Human-Environmental Research and Associate Professor of Anthropology at Tulane University. He is also the author of Before Modern Humans: New Perspectives on the African Stone Age and (with Karl Widerquist) Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy . Zusammenfassung Strategies for Quantitative Research is a concise and readable textbook on the use of statistics in archaeology and a handbook for professionals in the field aimed at answering commonly occurring questions about the goals of analysis and the assumptions of major statistical models. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures List of Tables List of Boxes List of Formula Preface Chapter 1: Introduction: How Does Quantitative Analysis Fit Into Archaeological Research? Chapter 2: Basics: Knowing Your Data Chapter 3: Preparing Your Data: Aggregation, Standardization, and Transformation Chapter 4: Numerical and Graphical Approaches to Summarizing Your Data Chapter 5: Basic Approaches for Statistical Hypothesis Testing Using Univariate Data Chapter 6: Bivariate Analysis: Linear Regression and Correlation Chapter 7: Multivariate Techniques for Data Reduction and Pattern Recognition Chapter 8: Multivariate Approaches to Statistical Hypothesis Testing Chapter 9: Clustering and Discrimination: Grouping Data According to Similarity Chapter 10: Conclusion: Numerical Facts in the World of Archaeological Ambiguity
