Quantitative Anthropology
A Workbook

A distinct workbook that contributes an anthropological perspective to quantitative methods

Leslie Lea Williams (Author), Kylie Quave (Author)

9780128127759

Paperback, published 21 March 2019

184 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 1.3 cm, 0.29 kg

Quantitative Anthropology: A Workbook contributes an anthropological perspective to quantitative methods. The book's authors address characteristics of quantitative data, entering and manipulating data in SPSS, graphical displays, distributions and measures of central tendency and dispersion, and including hypothesis testing with both parametric and nonparametric statistical tests. Increasingly complex exercises build on cumulative learning from chapter to chapter and stress the application of methods beyond coursework. The focus of the manual is on univariate statistical analysis, and the book is written to be accessible to higher level undergraduate students and graduate students in all fields of anthropology.

1. Essentials for Quantifying Anthropological Data Sets 2. Managing Anthropological Data Sets 3. Visualizing Data 4. Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion 5. Exploring and Transforming Distributions 6. Hypothesis Testing 7. Comparing Two Groups: t-Tests 8. Linear Associations: Correlation Analysis 9. Regression Analysis 10. Tests of Proportions: Chi-Square, Likelihood Ratio, Fisher’s Exact Test 11. Comparing Three or More Groups: Analysis of Variance

Subject Areas: Forensic science [JKVF1]