crossing disciplinary boundaries
Edición de la obra Tools for constructing chronologies
| Autor | Caitlin E. Buck, Andrew Millard |
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| Editorial | Springer |
| Fecha de publicación | 2004 |
| Lugar | London, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 257 |
| ISBN-10 | 185233763X |
| OCLC | 52901388 |
| LCCN | 2003061219 |
| Serie | Lecture notes in statistics ; · 177 · Lecture notes in statistics (Springer-Verlag) ; |
| Número de Cutter | B922t |
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Tools for Constructing Chronologies focuses on ways of getting more out of existing chronological data by careful analysis. It surveys a range of cutting edge methods in chronology construction and seeks to enable cross-disciplinary fertilisation of ideas. The specially invited papers cover a range of timescales, from the perspectives of a number of disciplines. The methods used range from complex statistical treatments, to (non-statistical) considerations of how to systematically represent relative dating information. Each chapter can be read alone, but they are also carefully cross-referenced. The editors' introductory essay provides a cross-disciplinary overview of the state of chronology construction methods, and highlights the links between them. This book will appeal to a wide range of researchers, scientists and graduate students using chronologies in their work; from applied statisticians to archaeologists, geologists and paleontologists, to those working in bioinformatics and chronometry. From the reviews: "Here's a good book on 'dating' that, luckily, won't find its way to the self-help section of your local bookstore!" Journal of the American Statistical Association, December 2005