Standard burial site analysis

ISAAKiel / quantAAR

R Package - Quantitative Analysis in Archaeology

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Standard burial site analysis #4

Open MartinHinz opened 8 years ago

MartinHinz commented 8 years ago

I suggest implementing a set of functions for a standard workflow of burial site analysis. This could involve

a data structure describing a cemetery (I know, you hate lists...)
summary statistics
varnastat analysis of the burial items
measuring inequality using gini and lorenz curve from ineq
ca and seriation
clustering
'Social Status Analysis' like BASP
14C calibration
... (add more)

This would include and refer also to feature_requests #2 and #3 ...

nevrome commented 8 years ago

Still against the list - prove me wrong ;-)

Beyond that I like the idea of such a workflow. What do you mean by summary statistics? What method could our package deliver that's not already implemented somewhere else?

I would also like to implement excavation analysis tools - I will open a new issue for this topic. Edit: Done #5.

MartinHinz commented 8 years ago

It is not so much about new methods, it is more about bundling also already existing methods and packages into a coherent workflow, that ideally make basic standard analysis at mouse click (or key stroke..). From my experience a lot of archaeologists do not work with R, because it is to straining or to tedious for them to collect and learn every package that could be of interest.

Example of summary statistics: mean, median, std for artefact abundancy in the cemetery. Very basic stuff. But nicely formated and layed out "publication ready".