Anthropac is a free program for cultural
domain analysis. Two versions are available, the DOS version and the
Windows version. The DOS version (Anthropac 4.98) is very complete, but
will not run under Windows 7 unless you have a 3rd party DOS emulator,
such as DosBox. The Windows version consists of two programs, the
freelist program and the pilesort program. Both DOS and Windows versions
are included in the downloadable install file.
Description
ANTHROPAC is a menu-driven DOS program for
collecting and analyzing data on cultural domains. The
program helps collect and analyze structured qualitative
and quantitative data including freelists, pilesorts,
triads, paired comparisons, and ratings. ANTHROPAC's
analytical tools include techniques that are unique to
Anthropology, such as consensus analysis, as well as
standard multivariate tools such as multiple regression,
factor analysis, cluster analysis, multidimensional
scaling and correspondence analysis. In addition, the
program provides a wide variety of data manipulation and
transformation tools, plus a full-featured matrix algebra
language.
ANTHROPAC is accompanied by a 150-page
Reference Manual, a 60-page User's Guide, and a 40-page
Methods Guide (which provides basic background
information on the methods of cultural domain analysis). These manuals
are provided in electronic form, not paper.
Collecting Proximity Data
Process qualititative pilesort and freelist
data. Construct individually randomized triad tests,
paired comparisons, and rating/ranking questionnaires.
Data collected using these instruments are automatically
unrandomized by the program so that the data are
comparable across respondents. Compute measures of
similarities/distances among items or respondents.
Analyze
Proximity Data
Perform metric and non-metric multidimensional
scaling of up to 180 items. Correspondence analysis,
factor analysis, and cluster analysis. Test hypotheses of
underlying perceptual dimensions via PROFIT analysis.
Test other hypotheses of proximity data with matrix
correlation (QAP) and matrix regression (MRQAP).
Perform metric and non-metric multidimensional
scaling of up to 180 items. Correspondence analysis,
factor analysis, and cluster analysis. Test hypotheses of
underlying perceptual dimensions via PROFIT analysis.
Test other hypotheses of proximity data with matrix
correlation (QAP) and matrix regression (MRQAP).
Attitude Scaling
Construct, test and modify Guttman and Likert
scales of underyling attitudes/traits. ANTHROPAC makes it
easy to drop items and rerun the analysis to arrive at
the optimum combination of items.
Consensus Analysis
Evaluate the extent and type of intracultural
variability in a sample, Assess the extent of informants'
knowledge of a cultural domain. The ANTHROPAC implementation handles
true/false, multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, and interval data.
Data Transformations
Routines for transforming data, including
symmetrizing, dichotomizing, recoding, reversing,
transposing, standardizing, reshaping, sorting,
normalizaing, permuting and collapsing matrices, and
extracting submatrices.
Data Management
Copy, delete, rename, merge, display, edit,
browse, and print datasets. Also export and import data
to and from ASCII formats for communication with other
programs.
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