Statistical Techniques for the Discovery of Artifact Types
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7601228 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Albert C Spaulding (University of Michigan, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1953 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 305-313 |
| Publication date | 1953-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7316 • E-ISSN: 2325-5064 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/277099 |
| OpenAlex | W4244989652 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 131 |
| References cited | 7 |
Within recent years there appears to have been an increasing awareness on the part of archaeologists that certain statistical techniques offer economical methods of extracting information of cultural significance from archaeological data. The discussions of Kroeber (1940), Robinson (1951), and Brainerd (1951) have appeared in American Antiquity, and the last two even evoked a comment (Lehmer, 1951). In addition to these papers, which are primarily devoted to exposition of method, a considerable number of special applications can be found in the literature. Archaeological research inevitably brings the researcher face to face with the problems of ordering and comparing quantities of data and of sampling error. There seems little doubt that the best approach to these problems involves a search of statistical literature for appropriate methods
Archaeology · Art · Artifact (error) · Data science · Epistemology · Exposition (narrative) · Face (sociological concept) · Literature · Sampling (signal processing) · Social science · Sociology · Advanced Statistical Methods and Models · Artificial Intelligence · Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models · Computer Science · History · Philosophy · Soil Geostatistics and Mapping
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| Unique citing works | 131 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,79 |
| Citation span | 1953 - 2026 (74) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 126 |