Mean Date — MeanDate-class • kairos

An S4 class to store the weighted mean date (e.g. Mean Ceramic Date) of archaeological assemblages.

Arguments

level: A length-one numeric vector giving the confidence level.

Slots

types: A length-\(p\) numeric vector giving the dates of the (ceramic) types.
weights: An \(m \times p\) integer matrix giving the weights used.
simulation: A three columns numeric matrix giving the summary statistics of the simulated dates (mean and lower and upper boundaries of the confidence interval).
replications: An integer giving the number of bootstrap replications.

Note

This class inherits from base numeric.

Coerce

In the code snippets below, x is a MeanDate object.

as.data.frame(x): Coerces to a data.frame.

See also

Other classes: AoristicSum-class, CountApportion-class, EventDate-class, IncrementTest-class, PermutationOrder-class, RateOfChange-class, RefinePermutationOrder-class

Author

N. Frerebeau