Quantitative Anthropology: A Workbook

Quantitative Anthropology: A Workbook contributes an anthropological perspective to quantitative methods. The authors address characteristics of quantitative data, entering and manipulating data in SPSS, graphical display of data, distributions and measures of central tendency and dispersion, and hypothesis testing with both parametric and nonparametric statistical tests. Increasingly complex exercises build on cumulative learning from chapter to chapter and stress application of methods beyond coursework.

The focus of the manual is on univariate statistical analysis and is written to be accessible to higher level undergraduate students and graduate students in all fields of anthropology.

Quantitative Anthropology: A Workbook is a one of a kind resource for those involved in anthropological programs and anthropologists in a non-academic setting seeking to augment their skill set.

Uses anthropological examples (from the subdisciplines of sociocultural anthropology, biological anthropology, and archaeology) to illustrate quantitative data techniquesIntegrates quantitative techniques with theoretical fluency, encouraging the reader to make connections between "Big Picture" questions in anthropology and the methods used to address those questionsFocuses on practical use of Excel and SPSS to apply quantitative methods to anthropological contextsIncludes exercises in both parametric and nonparametric inferential statistics as well as descriptive statistics, building first on competency in data management, collection and graphical display

1. Essentials for Quantifying Anthropological Data Sets 2. Managing Anthropological Data Sets 3. Visualizing Data 4. Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion 5. Exploring and Transforming Distributions 6. Hypothesis Testing 7. Comparing Two Groups: t-Tests 8. Linear Associations: Correlation Analysis 9. Regression Analysis 10. Tests of Proportions: Chi-Square, Likelihood Ratio, Fisher’s Exact Test 11. Comparing Three or More Groups: Analysis of Variance

Appendix 1. Distribution Tables 2. Further Reading 3. Final Project Concepts