Paper #310

Title:

Statistics in archaeology: New directions

Author:

Pedro Delicado

Date:

July 1998

Abstract:

Connections between Statistics and Archaeology have always appeared very fruitful. The objective of this paper is to offer an outlook of some statistical techniques that are being developed in the most recent years and that can be of interest for archaeologists in the short run.

Keywords:

Artificial neural networks, bayesian statistics, bootstrap, multivariate analysis, nonparametric statistics, statistical software

JEL codes:

C10

Area of Research:

Statistics, Econometrics and Quantitative Methods

Published in:

British Archaeological Reports International Series. ArchaeoPress, Oxford, 1999
With the title:
New Techniques for Old Times. Computer Applications in Archaeology, J. A. Barceló, editor

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