Computing in Archaeology

Session 12. Multivariate statistics

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 The Main Multivariate techniques:

Cluster analysis

Principal component analysis (PCA)

Discriminant analysis

Correspondence analysis
dissimilarity coefficient
CLUSTER ANALYSIS
PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS
Densem’s Roman spearheads
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
1 - fairly large, broad

2/3 - fairly large, moderate shape

4 - very large, broad, blunt

5 - very large, narrow, sharp

6 - small, moderate shape

7 - very small, fairly narrow and blunt