Modeling group size and scalar stress by logistic regression from an archaeological perspective

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Alberti, Gianmarco ^a  

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Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ETHNOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NORTH AMERICA; ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PROBABILITY; SCALAR STRESS THEORY; STATISTICAL MODEL; ADULT; ALGORITHM; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; ITALY; MALE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROCEDURES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ARCHAEOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; ITALY; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROBABILITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84898746353     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0091510     Document Type: Article

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