Digging Numbers - Elementary Statistics for Archaeologists, Second Edition

Informationen zum Autor by Mike Fletcher and Gary Lock Klappentext This fully revised second edition retains the hands-on simple approach of the first edition but with some significant modifications. Still covered in detail are descriptive and inferential techniques with each one worked through by hand on a common data-set, but new is a chapter covering an introduction to multivariate techniques. A new section provides SPSS PC programs designed with the beginner in mind. This book provides a practical manual to enable any archaeologist to start using statistics, as well as some more thoughtful considerations of the strengths and weaknesses of statistical methods and the results produced. Zusammenfassung This fully revised second edition retains the hands-on simple approach of the first edition but with some significant modifications. Still covered in detail are descriptive and inferential techniques with each one worked through by hand on a common data-set! but new is a chapter covering an introduction to multivariate techniques. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Section 1: Techniques for describing and presenting archaeological data 1. An introduction to data; 2. A statistical approach - signposting the way; 3. Tabular and pictorial display; 4. Measures of position - the average; 5. Measures of variability - the spread

Product details

• Authors: Mike Fletcher, Mike Lock Fletcher, Gary Lock
• Publisher: Oxford uni commitee archaeolog
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.08.2005
• EAN: 9780947816698
• ISBN: 978-0-947816-69-8
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Oxford University School of Archaeology Monograph; Oxford University School of Archaeology Monograph; Oxford Archaeology Monograph
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries