Quantitative Anthropology A Workbook /

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, a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Williams, Leslie Lea (Author), Quave, Kylie (Author)
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Academic Press, [2019]
Physical Description:
1 online resource.
Subjects:
Anthropology -- Methodology.
Online Access:Elsevier - Click here for access
Contents:
  • Front Cover; QUANTITATIVE ANTHROPOLOGY: A WORKBOOK; QUANTITATIVE ANTHROPOLOGY: A WORKBOOK; Copyright; CONTENTS; AUTHORS BIOGRAPHIES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PURPOSE OF THIS WORKBOOK; USER GUIDE FOR THE INSTRUCTOR; USER GUIDE FOR THE STUDENT; SUPPLEMENTARY RESOURCES OVERVIEW (ONLINE MATERIALS); Suggested Course Schedule and Topics; 1
  • Essentials for Quantifying Anthropological Data Sets; 1.1 ADDRESSING ANTHROPOLOGICAL QUESTIONS USING QUANTITATIVE METHODS; 1.1.1 Research Designs in Anthropology; Asking a Research Question; Ethics; Finding Data and Sampling; Developing Methods.
  • Analyzing Data and Reporting Results1.2 GETTING TO KNOW SPSS; ENTERING DATA AND TYPES OF MEASUREMENT; 1.2.1 Exercise in SPSS; 1.3 GETTING TO KNOW EXCEL AND IMPORTING DATA; 1.3.1 Exercise in Excel; 1.4 IMPORTING DATA INTO SPSS; TYPES OF VARIABLES; 1.4.1 Exercise in SPSS; 1.5 CREATING TABLES; 1.5.1 Exercise in Excel (Pivot Tables); 1.5.2 Exercise in SPSS (Frequency Tables); Interpret the Results; SUPPLEMENTARY ONLINE RESOURCES; Data Sources for Exercises; REFERENCES; 2
  • Managing Anthropological Data Sets; 2.1 ANTHROPOLOGICAL CHALLENGES IN DATA MANAGEMENT; 2.2 DATA MANAGEMENT PRACTICES.
  • 2.2.1 Exercise (Codebook/Data Dictionary)2.2.2 Exercise in SPSS (Using Variable Sets); 2.3 RECODING VARIABLES IN SPSS; 2.3.1 Exercise; Recoding Variables; 2.4 FILTERING VARIABLES IN SPSS; 2.4.1 Exercise; SUPPLEMENTARY ONLINE RESOURCES; Johnstown Data Files for Exercises; REFERENCES; 3
  • Visualizing Data; 3.1 USES OF VISUAL DATA ACROSS THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL SUBFIELDS; 3.1.1 Using Exploratory Data Analysis to Assess Anthropological Questions; 3.2 GRAPHING NOMINAL AND ORDINAL DATA; 3.2.1 Exercise in Excel; Comparing Multiple Variables with the PivotChart; 3.2.2 Exercise in SPSS.
  • 3.3 GRAPHING SCALE DATA3.3.1 Exercise in Excel; 3.3.2 Exercise in SPSS; 3.4 STRATEGIES FOR OPTIMAL PRESENTATION OF VISUAL DATA; 3.4.1 Exercise in Excel and SPSS; SUPPLEMENTARY ONLINE RESOURCES; Data File for Exercises; REFERENCES; 4
  • Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion; 4.1 USING CENTRAL TENDENCY AND DISPERSION TO ASSESS ANTHROPOLOGICAL QUESTIONS; 4.2 DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS: CENTRAL TENDENCY AND DISPERSION; 4.2.1 Exercise in Excel; 4.2.2 Exercise in SPSS; 4.3 BIVARIATE RELATIONSHIPS; 4.3.1 Exercise in SPSS; 4.4 DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS: DISPERSION; 4.4.1 Exercise in SPSS.
  • 4.5 COEFFICIENTS OF VARIATION4.5.1 Exercise in SPSS; Calculating the Statistic; 4.5.2 Anthropological Challenges: Sample Sizes; 4.5.3 Anthropological Challenges: Interpreting Results; SUPPLEMENTARY ONLINE RESOURCES; Medieval German Long Bone Measurements for 4.2; Johnstown Flood Dataset for Exercise 4.3; Hominin Molar Dataset for Exercise 4.5; List of Anthropological Research Articles That Use C.V.; REFERENCES; 5
  • Exploring and Transforming Distributions; 5.1 USING DISTRIBUTIONS TO ASSESS ANTHROPOLOGICAL QUESTIONS; 5.2 EXPLORING THE SHAPE OF A DISTRIBUTION; 5.2.1 Exercise in SPSS.

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