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1. Statistics in Anthropology

2. What Are Anthropological Data?

3. Grouping Data for Analysis

4. Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion

5. Basic Probability Theory

6. The Binomial Distribution

7. The Normal Distribution as a Continuous Random Variable

8. Point and Interval Estimation of Means and Variances

9. Introduction to Hypothesis Testing

10. The Student’s t-Distribution

11. Nonparametric Statistics: Nominal Scales

12. Nonparametric Statistics: Ordinal Scales

13. Linear Regression

14. Correlation Coefficients

15. Sampling Problems in Anthropology

16. A Parting Word of Caution

Appendix. Statistical Tables

Thomas: Refiguring Anthropology : First Principles of Probability and Statistics. Hardback 
9780881332230, 0881332232-37

  • Refiguring Anthropology : First Principles of Probability and Statistics. Hardback
  • by David Hurst Thomas
  • 532 pages. 1986. This volume’s lucid and lively style generates a working knowledge of statistical inference and cognate testing procedures. A practicing archaeologist, Thomas sets out to achieve the goal of producing a useful, readable text targeted specifically for students interested in the various sub-disciplines of anthropology.

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