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Bibliography of Statistics in Archaeology (Kvamme to Sutton)

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Kvamme, Kenneth L. 1985 In Defense of Roper (1976). Plains Anthropologist 30(109):263-264.

1990 One-sample tests in regional archaeological analysis: New possibilities through computer technology. American Antiquity 55(2):367-381.

1982 A Reexamination of Roper's Trend Surface Analysis of Central Plains Radiocarbon Dates. Plains Anthropologist 27(98):305-308.

1988 A Simple Graphic Approach and Poor Man's Clustering Technique for Investigating Surface Scatter Types. Plains Anthropologist 33(121):385-394.

1997 A wider view of the relationship between settlement size and population . American Antiquity 62(4):719-722.

Lahren, Larry 1972 Observations on Agogino and Parrish: The Fowler-Parrish Site. Plains Anthropologist 17(58):350-351.

Lewis, R. B. 1986 The analysis of contingency tables in archaeology. Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory 9277-310.

Lipo, Carl P., Mark E. Madsen, Robert C. Dunnell, and Tim Hunt 1997 Population structure, cultural transmission, and frequency seriation. 16301-333.

Lyman, R. L. and Michael J. O'Brien 2000 Measuring and explaining change in artifact variation with clade-diversity diagrams. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 19(1):39-74.

Lyman, R. L., Steve Wolverton, and Michael J. O'Brien 1998 Seriation, superposition, and interdigitation: A history of Americanist graphic depictions of culture change. American Antiquity 63(2):239-261.

Meltzer, David J., Robert D. Leonard, and Susan K. Stratton 1992 The relationship between sample size and diversity in archaeological assemblages. Journal of Archaeological Science 19375-387.

Mueller, James W. 1975 Sampling in Archaeology. edition.Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

Mutaw, Robert and Shirley Munson 1982 The Statistical Power of the Plains Anthropologist. Plains Anthropologist 27(97):255-257.

Neff, Hector 1993 Theory, sampling, and analytical techniques in the archaeological study of prehistoric ceramics. American Antiquity 58(1):23-44.

Orr, Kenneth G. 1944 Culture change at Kincaid: a study in statistical method. University of Chicago.

Orton, Clive R. 1982 Mathematics in Archaeology. edition.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Patterson, Leland W. 1984 A Simple Statistical Classification Method. Plains Anthropologist 29(105):247-251.

Pinder, David, Isumi Shimada, and David Gregory 1979 The nearest-neighbor statistic: Archaeological application and new developments. American Antiquity 44(3):430-445.

Powers-Jones, Alix H. and Padmore, Joanne. The use of quantitative methods and statistical analyses in the study of opal phytoliths. Pearsall, Deborah M. and Piperno, Dolores R. MASCA: Current Research in Phytolith Analysis: Applications in archaeology and paleoecology 10, 47-56. 93.

Read, Dwight W. 1989 Statistical methods and reasoning in archaeological research: A review of praxis and promise. Journal of Quantitative Archaeology 15-78.

Robertson, Ian G. 1999 Spatial and multivariate analysis, random sampling error, and analytical noise: Empirical Bayesian methods at Teotihuacan, Mexico. American Antiquity 64(1):137-152.

Robinson, W. S. and George S. Brainerd 1951 A method for chronologically ordering archaeological deposits; and The place of chronological ordering in archaeological analysis. American Antiquity 16(4):293-313.

Roper, Donna C. 1976 Nominal Data and Factor Analysis: A Comment on Geier. Plains Anthropologist 21(73):231-236.

1985 Some Comments on Kvamme's Reexamination of Roper's Trend- |Surface Analysis. Plains Anthropologist 30(109):259-261.

Spaulding, Albert C.1983 Archaeology Theory: 1936. In Lulu Linear Punctated: Essays in Honor of George Irving Quimby. Robert C. Dunnell and Donald K. Grayson, eds. Pp. 19-26. Ann Arbor: Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan.

1977 On growth and form in archaeology: Multivariate analysis. Journal of Anthropological Research 33(1):1-15.

1960 Statistical description and comparison of artifact assemblages. In The application of quantitative methods in archaeology. In Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology. R. Heizer and S. Cook, eds. Pp. 60-83. New York: Wenner-Gren Foundation.

1953 Statistical technique for the discovery of artifact types. American Antiquity 18305-313.

1982 Structure in archaeological data: Nominal variables. Robert Whallon and James A. Brown, eds. Pp. 1-20. Evanston: Center for American Archaeology Press.

Speth, John D. and Gregory A. Johnson 1976 Problems in the use of correlation for the investigation of tool kits and activity areas. In Cultural Change and Continuity. Charles E. Cleland, ed. Pp. 35-57. NYC: Academic Press.

Sullivan, Arthur L. and Mark L. Shaffer 1975 Biogeography of the Megazoo. Science 189(4196):13-17.

Sutton, Mark Q. 1998 Cluster analysis of paleofecaldata sets: A test of late prehistoric settlment and substistence patterns in the northern Caocella valley, California. American Antiquity 63(1):86-107.

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