Lies, damned lies and statistics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6094522 |
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| Authors | Kirsten Juhl (Stavanger Museum, corresponding author), Per Markestad |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 113-122 |
| Publication date | 1991-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Norwegian Archaeological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0029-3652 • E-ISSN: 1502-7678 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00293652.1991.9965537 |
| OpenAlex | W1982225442 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
Differences in archaeological find material are most often implicitly taken to represent differences in the underlying prehistoric material in a one‐to‐one relationship. Contrary to this assumption the theory is adopted that a certain type of archaeological material must be treated as random samples from a large prehistoric artefact population and therefore will show random variations. These variations must be analysed statistically. A statistical test is developed to help decide if the differences are real or just a result of the random sampling. The test is applied to a Late Palaeolithic example from the archaeological literature
Archaeology · Geography · Population · Prehistory · Sampling (signal processing) · Sociology · Computer Science · Demography · Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping · History · Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction · Soil Geostatistics and Mapping
| Highly cited | No |
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