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Format: 1 online resource (186 pages)

ISBN: 0-12-812830-5 , 0-12-812775-9

Note: 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 Results -- 1.2 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 DATA -- 3.3.1 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 VARIATION -- 4.5.1 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 -- Interpreting the Data Output -- 5.3 TRANSFORMING THE SHAPE OF A DISTRIBUTION -- 5.3.1 Exercise in SPSS -- Interpreting the Data Output -- 5.3.2 Exercise in SPSS -- 5.4 Z-SCORES -- 5.4.1 Hand-Calculation Exercises -- Hypothetical Scenario 1 -- Hypothetical Scenario 2 -- 5.4.2 Anthropological Challenges-Confounding Factors. Exercise in SPSS -- SUPPLEMENTARY ONLINE RESOURCES -- Ceramics Dataset for Distribution Exercise -- Dataset on Diabetes Differences by Race for z-Scores -- List of Anthropological Research Articles That Use z-Scores and Distribution Statistics -- Anthropological Studies That Use z-Scores. , Anthropological Studies That Examine Distribution -- REFERENCES -- 6 - Hypothesis Testing -- 6.1 ANTHROPOLOGICAL HYPOTHESIS TESTING ACROSS THE SUBFIELDS -- 6.2 STANDARD ERROR -- 6.2.1 Hand Calculation of Standard Error -- Interpreting the Standard Error -- Calculating the Standard Error -- 6.2.2 Exercise in Excel -- 6.2.3 Exercise in Excel -- 6.2.4 Exercise in Excel -- 6.3 HYPOTHESIS TESTING WITH THE T-DISTRIBUTION: PROPORTIONS -- 6.3.1 Exercise in SPSS -- Interpreting the SPSS t-Test Output -- 6.4 HYPOTHESIS TESTING WITH THE T-DISTRIBUTION: MEANS -- 6.4.1 Exercise in Excel -- 6.4.2 Exercise in SPSS -- Interpreting the SPSS t-Test Output -- 6.5 ANTHROPOLOGICAL CHALLENGES: STATISTICAL POWER -- SUPPLEMENTARY ONLINE RESOURCES -- Biological Variation Dataset for SE Exercise -- Medieval German Data for t-Test Exercise -- List of Anthropological Research Articles That Use One-Sample t-Tests -- REFERENCES -- 7 - Comparing Two Groups: t-Tests -- 7.1 ANTHROPOLOGICAL COMPARISONS OF TWO GROUPS -- 7.2 COMPARING TWO GROUPS WITH PARAMETRIC TECHNIQUES -- 7.2.1 Exercise in SPSS: Descriptive Statistics and Data Visualization -- 7.2.2 Independent-Samples t-Test-Exercise in SPSS -- What Does the t-Test SPSS Output Mean? -- Heterogeneity of Variances -- Interpreting the Data Output -- 7.3 PAIRED-SAMPLES T-TEST -- 7.3.1 Exercise in SPSS -- Interpreting the Data Output -- 7.4 NONPARAMETRIC ALTERNATIVES TO T-TESTS -- 7.4.1 Exercise in SPSS -- Interpreting the Data Output -- 7.5 CALCULATING EFFECT SIZE -- 7.5.1 Exercise -- Interpreting Effect Size -- 7.6 ANTHROPOLOGICAL CHALLENGES: REPORTING RESULTS -- 7.6.1 Exercise -- SUPPLEMENTARY ONLINE RESOURCES -- Cheqoq Ceramics Dataset for Independent-Samples t-Test Exercise -- Medieval German Femur Head Measurements for 7.3 -- List of Anthropological Research Articles That Use Independent-Sample and Paired-Sample t-Tests. , Independent Sample t-Test -- Paired Samples t-Test -- Mann-Whitney U -- REFERENCES -- 8 - Linear Associations: Correlation Analysis -- 8.1 LINEAR ASSOCIATIONS IN ANTHROPOLOGY -- 8.2 DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS AND DATA VISUALIZATION FOR LINEAR ASSOCIATIONS -- ASSUMPTIONS OF LINEAR ASSOCIATIONS -- 8.2.1 Exercise in SPSS: Descriptive Statistics and Data Visualization -- 8.3 PARAMETRIC CORRELATION COEFFICIENT -- 8.3.1 Exercise in SPSS -- Interpreting the Data Output -- 8.4 NONPARAMETRIC CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS -- 8.4.1 Exercise in SPSS -- Interpreting the Data Output -- 8.5 REPORTING RESULTS OF TESTS OF LINEAR ASSOCIATION -- 8.5.1 Anthropological Challenges: Reporting Results -- SUPPLEMENTARY ONLINE RESOURCES -- ``Global Social'' Datasets -- List of Anthropological Research Articles that use correlation -- REFERENCES -- 9 - Regression Analysis -- 9.1 USES OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL REGRESSION ANALYSIS -- 9.2 LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS -- 9.2.1 Exercise in SPSS: Descriptive Statistics and Data Visualization -- 9.2.2 Exercise in SPSS -- Regression Output -- 9.3 ANTHROPOLOGICAL CHALLENGES: REPORTING RESULTS -- 9.3.1 Exercise -- SUPPLEMENTARY ONLINE RESOURCES -- Data Source for Exercises -- List of Anthropological Research Articles That Use Linear Regression -- REFERENCES -- 10 - Tests of Proportions: Chi-Square, Likelihood Ratio, Fisher's Exact Test -- 10.1 ANTHROPOLOGICAL QUESTIONS USING PROPORTIONAL OR COUNT DATA -- 10.2 DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS AND DATA VISUALIZATION FOR FREQUENCY DATA -- 10.2.1 Exercise in SPSS -- Creating Tables and Figures Using Crosstabs -- 10.3 UNIVARIATE CHI-SQUARE TEST -- 10.3.1 Exercise With Hand Calculation -- 10.3.2 Exercise in SPSS -- 10.4 BIVARIATE CHI-SQUARE TEST AND LIKELIHOOD RATIO -- 10.4.1 Exercise With Hand Calculation -- 10.4.2 Exercise in SPSS -- Interpreting the Data Output -- 10.5 FISHER'S EXACT TEST -- 10.5.1 Exercise in SPSS. , 10.6 POST HOC TESTS OF COMPARISON AND STRENGTH -- 10.6.1 Exercise in SPSS -- Finding the Differences: Adjusted Standardized Residuals (VanPool & Leonard, 2011) -- Calculating Effect Size -- 10.7 ANTHROPOLOGICAL CHALLENGES: REPORTING RESULTS -- 10.7.1 Exercise -- SUPPLEMENTARY ONLINE RESOURCES -- NHANES Survey Data File for Exercise 10.4 -- Johnstown Flood Dataset for Exercise 10.3 -- USDA Dataset for Fishers Exact Test -- List of Anthropological Research Articles That Use Tests of Proportions -- REFERENCES -- 11 - Comparing Three or More Groups: Analysis of Variance -- 11.1 ANTHROPOLOGICAL QUESTIONS COMPARING MORE THAN TWO GROUPS -- 11.2 COMPARING THREE OR MORE GROUPS WITH PARAMETRIC TECHNIQUES -- 11.2.1 Descriptive Statistics and Data Visualization for Comparing Multiple Groups: Exercise in SPSS -- 11.2.2 Analysis of Variance: Exercise in SPSS -- Interpreting the SPSS ANOVA Output -- Assumption of Homogeneity of Variance -- The ANOVA Output -- 11.3 NONPARAMETRIC ALTERNATIVES TO ANOVA -- 11.3.1 Exercise in SPSS -- 11.4 POST HOC TESTS OF COMPARISON AND STRENGTH -- EFFECT SIZE: ETA SQUARED -- 11.4.1 Exercise in SPSS -- Identifying the Differences: Post Hoc Tests -- Effect Size -- 11.5 ANTHROPOLOGICAL CHALLENGES: REPORTING RESULTS -- 11.5.1 Exercise -- SUPPLEMENTARY ONLINE RESOURCES -- Boas Immigrant Dataset -- Johnstown Flood Paleodemographic Data File for Exercises -- List of Anthropological Research Articles That Use ANOVA -- REFERENCES -- 1: Distribution Tables -- 2: Further Reading -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- Z -- Back Cover.

Language: English