The Archaeological Use of Kernel Density Estimates

Table of Contents

• Summary
• Table of Contents

• List of figures

• 1 The background to this paper
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 Why this paper?
  • 1.3 Structure
• 2 Univariate KDEs - a non-technical introduction
  • 2.1 The basic univariate KDE
  • 2.2 Variations on the basic KDE
• 3 Examples of the use of univariate KDEs
  • 3.1 Introduction to examples of univariate KDEs
  • 3.2 Comparative use of univariate KDEs
  • 3.3 Adaptive KDEs
  • 3.4 Boundary KDEs
  • 3.5 KDEs applied to processed data
• 4 Bivariate KDEs - a non-technical introduction
  • 4.1 Basic ideas
  • 4.2 Choice of window-width
  • 4.3 Presentational issues
• 5 Examples of the use of bivariate KDEs
  • 5.1 Introduction to examples of bivariate KDEs
  • 5.2 The Mask Site data
  • 5.3 Initial analysis of the Mask Site Data
  • 5.4 Contouring using the Mask Site data
  • 5.5 The Southampton Glass data
  • 5.6 Bivariate KDEs of glass compositions
• 6 Trivariate KDEs
  • 6.1 Introduction to trivariate KDEs
• 7 Choice of window-width
  • 7.1 The window width
  • 7.2 The normal scale rule
  • 7.3 Subjective choice
  • 7.4 DPI and STE rules
• 8 Computational considerations
  • 8.1 Introduction
  • 8.2 Downloadable software
  • 8.3 Installing the software
  • 8.4 Added functionality for advanced users
  • 8.5 About the authors
• 9 Kernel Density Estimation Demonstrations - Help Sheet
  • 9.1 kdedemo1 - The Univariate case
  • 9.2 kdedemo2 - The Bivariate case
  • 9.3 Importing your own data
• Bibliography

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