What is it about?
Overview of sampling theory as it applies in archaeology, with emphasis on stratified sampling and cluster sampling.
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Why is it important?
Archaeologists often do sampling, but do not always pay close enough attention to the implications of their sampling methods - whether probability sampling or not - for the results of their research or the degree of confidence we should place in those results.
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I would argue that probability sampling is not always the most appropriate approach to sampling archaeological landscapes, sites, features, or artifacts, but carefully designed probability samples are required in many contexts where archaeologists want to make generalizations in a convincing way.
Edward B Banning
University of Toronto
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This page is a summary of: Sampling Methods and Theory, January 2023, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-323-90799-6.00037-9.
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