Download or read book Digging Numbers written by Mike Fletcher and published by Oxford University School of Archaeology. This book was released on 2005 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully revised second edition retains the hands-on simple approach of the first edition but with some significant modifications. Still covered in detail are descriptive and inferential techniques with each one worked through by hand on a common data-set, but new is a chapter covering an introduction to multivariate techniques. A new section provides SPSS PC programs designed with the beginner in mind. This book provides a practical manual to enable any archaeologist to start using statistics, as well as some more thoughtful considerations of the strengths and weaknesses of statistical methods and the results produced.