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Refiguring Anthropology

First Principles of Probability and Statistics

David Hurst Thomas

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. The chapters follow the order and content of many other introductory statistics books but are given an anthropological twist by the inclusion of a wide range of definite anthropological examples. Thomas provides a relevant context so that students can draw on their own rich experiences to help them learn and understand the practical application of statistics in modern anthropological studies. His pertinent, scholarly, and imaginative examples are sure to enliven the study of mathematical procedures by nonmathematicians.
 

$37.95 list, 532 pages

10-digit ISBN: 0-88133-223-2

13-digit ISBN: 978-0-88133-223-0

© 1986

Table of Contents

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