Description
Book SynopsisStatistics in Practice A new series of practical books outliningthe use of statistical techniques in a wide range of applicationareas:
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The authors of this important text explore the processes throughwhich archaeologists analyse their data and how these can be mademore rigorous and effective by sound statistical modelling. Theyassume relatively little previous statistical or mathematicalknowledge. Introducing the idea underlying the Bayesian approach tothe statistical analysis of data and their subsequentinterpretation, the authors demonstrate the major advantage of thisapproach, i.e. that it allows the incorporation of relevant priorknowledge or beliefs into the analysis. By doing so it provides alogical and coherent way of updating beliefs from those held beforeobserving the data to those held after taking the data intoaccount. To illustr
Table of Contents
The Bayesian Approach to Statistical Archaeology.
Outline of the Approach.
Modelling in Archaeology.
Quantifying Uncertainty: The Probability Concept.
Statistical Modelling.
Bivariate and Multivariate Distributions.
Bayesian Inference.
Implementation Issues.
Interpretation of Radiocarbon Results.
Spatial Analysis.
Sourcing and Provenancing.
Application to Other Dating Methods.
The Way Forward.
References.
Index.
