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Taxicab correspondence analysis of abundance data in archaeology: three case studies revisited
- Source :
- Archeologia e Calcolatori.
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- CNR - Istituto di Scienze del Patrimonio Culturale, 2015.
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Abstract
- This paper compares the method of Correspondence Analysis (CA) for finding patterns in archaeological sites by artifacts abundance data, with a robust variant, named Taxicab Correspondence Analysis (TCA). We show that this comparison is useful, especially for sparse tables with outliers. We identify three kinds of outliers. Three well-known datasets are reanalyzed.
- Subjects :
- Statistics
Classification of archaeological finds
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 11206861
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Archeologia e Calcolatori
- Accession number :
- edsair.issn11206861..244a749adf126faf797b9920bbe0d407