Knowledge Discovery From Archaeological Materials

This Element highlights the employment within archaeology of classification methods developed in the field of chemometrics, artificial intelligence, and Bayesian statistics. These often have better results than traditional methods. The basic principles and main methods are introduced with recommendations when to use them.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Processing spectral data; 3. Processing compositional data; 4. Processing a combination of spectral and compositional data; 5. Final comments; Abbreviations; References.

Product details

• Authors: Denisse L Argote, Denisse L. Argote, Denisse L. (Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia) Argote, Pedro A. (Escuela Nacional De Antrop Lopez Garcia, Pedro A. (Escuela Nacional de Antropologia e Historia) Lopez Garcia, Pedro A López García, Pedro A. López García, Michael C Thrun, Michael C. Thrun, Michael C. (Philipps-Universitat Marburg Thrun, Manuel A. (Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia) Torres-Garcia, Manuel A Torres-García, Manuel A. Torres-García
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2024
• EAN: 9781009181877
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0918187-7
• No. of pages: 96
• Series: Elements in Current Archaeological Tools and Techniques
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); machine learning, Data Mining, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Probability & statistics, Mathematical & statistical software, Probability and statistics, Archaeological science, methodology & techniques, Bayesian Inference, Mathematical and statistical software, Archaeological science, methodology and techniques, archaeology (general)