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Digging Numbers: Elementary Statistics for Archaeologists
This book is designed to get people to try statistics for the most popular techniques of descriptive and inferential statistics are explained and illustrated with reference to a data set of forty bronze spearheads. The reader is then told how to manipulate the data on a computer with statistical programmes. Now reprinted with corrections.
- GenresArchaeology
200 pages, Paperback
First published December 31, 1994
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August 15, 2013
I am such a bad archaeologist when it comes to statistics. A pie chart was about the best thing I have done in my entire career.
This book helped me to understand that a pie chart is something that has its own value, that you don´t have to do super specialized statistics to be a good archaeologist and that you don´t have to be afraid of them. YOu can do a lot more than a pie chart with the same knowledge and arrive at interesting interpretations.
Its a great book for beginners and archaeologists who don´t have the option to have a specialist at their side at every step to do statistics for them but still have to and want to include statistics in their work.
This book helped me to understand that a pie chart is something that has its own value, that you don´t have to do super specialized statistics to be a good archaeologist and that you don´t have to be afraid of them. YOu can do a lot more than a pie chart with the same knowledge and arrive at interesting interpretations.
Its a great book for beginners and archaeologists who don´t have the option to have a specialist at their side at every step to do statistics for them but still have to and want to include statistics in their work.
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