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> On this topic, would you-all be willing to say which is your favorite > statistics software for archaeozoological analysis? I have > been advised to get "mini-tab" and it looks wonderful but also they > want eleven hundred bucks for it. In January, at the Professional Zooarchaeologists Group meeting on statistics for zooarchaeology, Hannah O'Regan and I were able to cover many of the statistical tools that might be required: descriptive stats, t-test, F-test, Shapiro-Wilk, Mann-Whitney, Kruskal-Wallis, Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Chi-squared & Fisher's exact test, Diversity measures, and Correspondence analysis. All are available within PAST: PAlaeontological Statistics http://folk.uio.no/ohammer/past/ This is free and designed for palaeontologists, and seems to me to come closer than any other package to what zooarchaeologists need. Best wishes Andrew -- Dr. Andrew Millard [log in to unmask] Durham University Senior Lecturer in Archaeology Tel: +44 191 334 1147 Deputy Director of Combined Honours Tel: +44 191 334 3006 Archaeology: http://www.dur.ac.uk/archaeology/ Combined Honours: http://www.dur.ac.uk/combined.honours/ Personal webpage: http://www.dur.ac.uk/a.r.millard/