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A Statistical Device for Comparing Trait Lists

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Y. T. Witherspoon
Y. T. Witherspoon*
Affiliation:
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
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Abstract

A comparison of Adena and Hopewell trait lists by a correlation scatterplot based on the Q technique is offered as an illustration of the use of a descriptive statistic to reduce the degree of similarity between two cultures to an index which defines a point on a dissimilarity-similarity continuum.

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American Antiquity , Volume 26 , Issue 3Part1 , January 1961 , pp. 433 - 436
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1961

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