> 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
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Durham University
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