Style, Society, and Person: Archaeological and Ethnological Perspectives. Christopher Carr and Jill E. Neitzel
In: American anthropologist: AA, Volume 98, Issue 4, p. 925-926
ISSN: 1548-1433
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In: American anthropologist: AA, Volume 98, Issue 4, p. 925-926
ISSN: 1548-1433
In: American anthropologist: AA, Volume 74, Issue 6, p. 1498-1499
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In: American anthropologist: AA, Volume 71, Issue 6, p. 1125-1130
ISSN: 1548-1433
The general utility of r‐mode factor analyses for screening and ordering artifact characteristics is severely restricted by the presence of nominal categories in typological attribute systems. Even where a correlation coefficient appropriate to qualitative data can be used, factor analysis generates spurious correlations stemming from the interdependencies that nominal attributes usually share. The resulting factors may also obscure or distort the contingent interactions that can strongly influence typological patterning, especially among lithic artifacts. R. A. Benfer's factor analysis of stone projectile points illustrates these problems, in addition to yielding factors that largely reflect the redundancy with which certain aspects of typological variation are expressed in his raw data. [factor analysis, statistics, artifact typology, archeology]
In: American anthropologist: AA, Volume 70, Issue 3, p. 629-630
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In: American anthropologist: AA, Volume 69, Issue 3-4, p. 400-401
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In: American anthropologist: AA, Volume 68, Issue 2, p. 356-394
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In: American anthropologist: AA, Volume 66, Issue 1, p. 191-192
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In: Man: the journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 25, Issue 2, p. 341
In: Current anthropology, Volume 10, Issue 5, p. 475-503
ISSN: 1537-5382
In: American anthropologist: AA, Volume 101, Issue 2, p. 385-399
ISSN: 1548-1433