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Sampling



An introduction to sampling.

 

Topics

  • Central limit theorem

Readings

  • Thomas, D. H. 1986. Chapter 15 (pp. 439-456), "Sampling problems in anthropology" Refiguring anthropology: First principles of probability and statistics. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press.
  • Handwerker, W. P., and D. F. Wozniak. 1997. Sampling strategies for the collection of cultural data: an extension of Boas's answer to Galton's problem. Current Anthropology 38:869-875.
  • Flannery, K. V. 1976. "Sampling on the regional level," in The Early Mesoamerican village. Edited by K. V. Flannery, pp. 131-136. Orlando, FL: Academic Press.
  • Benfer, R. A. 1968. The desirability of small samples for anthropological inference. American Anthropologist 70:949-951.

 

 

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