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Knowledge Discovery from Archaeological Materials
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 September 2024
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This Element highlights the employment within archaeology of classification methods developed in the field of chemometrics, artificial intelligence, and Bayesian statistics. These operate in both high- and low-dimensional environments and often have better results than traditional methods. The basic principles and main methods are introduced with recommendations for when to use them.
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