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Chapter 12: Confronting Field Data: Fitting Data to Model

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2018

Kenneth M. Weiss
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The model life tables are constructed for field data which are fragmentary, incomplete, or lacking in detail. If a few gross measures can be determined which reflect the pooled experience of many elements of the population and hence are freer of stochastic variation, and if the stationary population assumptions are at all justified, a reasonable fit to a model can be expected with a minimum of work.

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IV Applications to Anthropological Problems
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Memoirs of the Society for American Archaeology , Volume 27: Demographic Models For Anthropology , 1973 , pp. 65 - 69
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1973

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