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The Sample Size-Richness Relation: A Comment on Plog and Hegmon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Robert D. Leonard
Robert D. Leonard*
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Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131
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Abstract

Plog and Hegmon (1993) focus on my research (Leonard 1989) on Black Mesa, Arizona, faunal assemblages as part of a broader critique of the work of a number of researchers who consider the effects of sample size on assemblage richness values. I suggest that their critique is problematic for a number of reasons, primarily statistical, but also because they do not provide an alternative hypothesis for the observed pattern.

Plog y Hegmon (1993) enfocan mis investigaciones (1989) sobre los conjuntos faunísticos de Black Mesa, Arizona, dentro de una critica más amplia del trabajo de varios investigadores quienes consideran los efectos del tamaño de la muestra en valores de riqueza de conjuntos artefactuales. Yo siugero que su crítica es problemdtica por muchas razones, principalmente estadísticas, pero también porque ellos no proveen una hipótesis alterna para explicar el patrón observado.

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American Antiquity , Volume 62 , Issue 4 , October 1997 , pp. 713 - 716
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1997

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