Hi all,

A few years back the PZG held a really good statistics training day – Hannah O’Regan and Andrew Millard came and led the event providing excellent tuition in PAST (the free software mentioned in an earlier email), using zooarchaeological examples to address discipline-specific issues.

It probably wouldn’t be too difficult or expensive to repeat the event but this time using video-capture technology to record/integrate the presentations with the on-screen demonstrations...  Video capture is a free facility at Nottingham and I suspect the same must be true at other universities.

I agree, this would be a really excellent resource – I would definitely use it, as would my students.

All the best, Naomi

Dear Fiona and list members,

I was recently thinking we could do with some sharing of knowledge regarding the use of statistics/packages - a workshop with zooarch examples - maybe even an on-line resource?  We were looking for advice on correspondence analysis and zooarch and our in-house computing/stats experts seemed bemused by our enquires - so I do think some knowledge sharing would not go amiss.  I will investigate methods that we can pursue this idea.

For interest - we are now using CANOCO - with help from a variety of colleagues that included some great teaching notes.  Perhaps a sharing of teaching resources would be helpful?  

After Jean-Dennis V.paper at the ASWA meeting I now want to think about mixture analysis - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0033589499920665 and http://paleobiol.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/abstract/28/1/55

I do not appear to be able to access the latter article, does anyone have a copy or comments on the use of this methodology, looks complicated.....

Cheers,

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