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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.

Author

N. Frerebeau