
Quantitative Anthropology
A Workbook
Description
Key Features
- Uses anthropological examples (from the subdisciplines of sociocultural anthropology, biological anthropology, and archaeology) to illustrate quantitative data techniques
- Integrates quantitative techniques with theoretical fluency, encouraging the reader to make connections between Big Picture questions in anthropology and the methods used to address those questions
- Focuses on the practical use of Excel and SPSS to apply quantitative methods to anthropological contexts
- Includes exercises in both parametric and nonparametric inferential statistics, as well as descriptive statistics
Readership
Upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in anthropological programs, anthropologists in non-academic settings (CRM, museums). Social scientists in health and society, sociology, pre-med, public health and environmental studies
Table of Contents
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 VarianceAppendix
1. Distribution Tables
2. Further Reading
3. Final Project Concepts
Product details
- No. of pages: 184
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2019
- Published: March 21, 2019
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780128128305
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128127759