A Bayesian approach to seriation problems in archaeology

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 651-673

  Halekoh, U ^a   Vach, W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Archaeology; Bayesian analysis; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Seriation

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DATA REDUCTION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

BAYESIAN METHODOLOGY; SERIATION TASKS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

ALGORITHM; ARCHAEOLOGY; CHRONOLOGY; MARKOV CHAIN; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS;

EID: 1842781603     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9473(03)00034-3     Document Type: Article

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