Seriation (archaeology)
In archaeology, seriation is a relative dating method in which assemblages or artifacts from numerous sites in the same culture are placed in chronological order. Where absolute dating methods, such as radio carbon, cannot be applied, archaeologists have to use relative dating methods to date archaeological finds and features. Seriation is a standard method of dating in archaeology. It can be used to date stone tools, pottery fragments, and other artifacts. In Europe, it has been used frequently to reconstruct the chronological sequence of graves in a cemetery (e.g. Jørgensen 1992; Müssemeier, Nieveler et al. 2003). Contextual and frequency seriation Two different variants of seriation have been applied: contextual seriation and frequency seriation (Renfrew and Bahn 1996, pp. 116–117). Whereas contextual seriation is based on the presence or absence of a design style, frequency seriation relies on measuring the proportional abundance or frequency of a design styl ...
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Archaeology
Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of Artifact (archaeology), artifacts, architecture, biofact (archaeology), biofacts or ecofacts, archaeological site, sites, and cultural landscapes. Archaeology can be considered both a social science and a branch of the humanities. It is usually considered an independent academic discipline, but may also be classified as part of anthropology (in North America – the four-field approach), history or geography. Archaeologists study human prehistory and history, from the development of the first stone tools at Lomekwi in East Africa 3.3 million years ago up until recent decades. Archaeology is distinct from palaeontology, which is the study of fossil remains. Archaeology is particularly important for learning about prehistoric societies, for which, by definition, there are no written records. Prehistory includes ove ...
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Multidimensional Scaling
Multidimensional scaling (MDS) is a means of visualizing the level of similarity of individual cases of a dataset. MDS is used to translate "information about the pairwise 'distances' among a set of n objects or individuals" into a configuration of n points mapped into an abstract Cartesian space. More technically, MDS refers to a set of related ordination techniques used in information visualization, in particular to display the information contained in a distance matrix. It is a form of non-linear dimensionality reduction. Given a distance matrix with the distances between each pair of objects in a set, and a chosen number of dimensions, ''N'', an MDS algorithm places each object into ''N''-dimensional space (a lower-dimensional representation) such that the between-object distances are preserved as well as possible. For ''N'' = 1, 2, and 3, the resulting points can be visualized on a scatter plot. Core theoretical contributions to MDS were made by James O. Ramsay of M ...
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Polynomial Curve
In mathematics, a polynomial is an expression (mathematics), expression consisting of indeterminate (variable), indeterminates (also called variable (mathematics), variables) and coefficients, that involves only the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and positive-integer powers of variables. An example of a polynomial of a single indeterminate is . An example with three indeterminates is . Polynomials appear in many areas of mathematics and science. For example, they are used to form polynomial equations, which encode a wide range of problems, from elementary word problem (mathematics education), word problems to complicated scientific problems; they are used to define polynomial functions, which appear in settings ranging from basic chemistry and physics to economics and social science; they are used in calculus and numerical analysis to approximate other functions. In advanced mathematics, polynomials are used to construct polynomial rings and algebraic variet ...
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Seriation Ideal Table30
Seriation is a way of situating an object within a series. It may refer to: *Seriation (archaeology) *Seriation (semiotics) *Seriation (statistics) In combinatorial data analysis, seriation is the process of finding an arrangement of all objects in a set, in a linear order, given a loss function In mathematical optimization and decision theory, a loss function or cost function (sometimes also ...

Seriation Parabola
Seriation is a way of situating an object within a series. It may refer to: * Seriation (archaeology) *Seriation (semiotics) *Seriation (statistics) In combinatorial data analysis, seriation is the process of finding an arrangement of all objects in a set, in a linear order, given a loss function In mathematical optimization and decision theory, a loss function or cost function (sometimes also ...

Seriation Simulated Data
Seriation is a way of situating an object within a series. It may refer to: *Seriation (archaeology) *Seriation (semiotics) *Seriation (statistics) In combinatorial data analysis, seriation is the process of finding an arrangement of all objects in a set, in a linear order, given a loss function In mathematical optimization and decision theory, a loss function or cost function (sometimes also ...

Seriation Simulated Data Raw
Seriation is a way of situating an object within a series. It may refer to: * Seriation (archaeology) *Seriation (semiotics) *Seriation (statistics) In combinatorial data analysis, seriation is the process of finding an arrangement of all objects in a set, in a linear order, given a loss function In mathematical optimization and decision theory, a loss function or cost function (sometimes also ...