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Archaeological Sampling Strategies

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Figure 1. Initial Map of an Archaeological Site.

Figure 1. Initial Map of an Archaeological Site.

Figure 2. Layout for Comparing Simple Random Sampling to Stratified Random Sampling.

Figure 2. Layout for Comparing Simple Random Sampling to Stratified Random Sampling.

Figure 3. Class Results for Comparing Simple Random Sampling to Stratified Random Sampling.

Figure 3. Class Results for Comparing Simple Random Sampling to Stratified Random Sampling.

Figure 4. Descriptive Statistics and Comparative Boxplots of Class Results for Comparing Simple Random Sampling to Stratified Random Sampling.

Figure 4. Descriptive Statistics and Comparative Boxplots of Class Results for Comparing Simple Random Sampling to Stratified Random Sampling.

Figure 5 Site Layout for Comparing Simple Random Sampling to Systematic Random Sampling.

Figure 5 Site Layout for Comparing Simple Random Sampling to Systematic Random Sampling.

Figure 6 Site Layout for Comparing Simple Random Sampling to Cluster Random Sampling.

Figure 6 Site Layout for Comparing Simple Random Sampling to Cluster Random Sampling.

Figure 7. Boxplots for Stratified Random Sampling, with Unequal Sample Sizes from Each Stratum, Versus Simple Random Sampling, Under Site 2.

Figure 7. Boxplots for Stratified Random Sampling, with Unequal Sample Sizes from Each Stratum, Versus Simple Random Sampling, Under Site 2.

Table 1. MSE's for 10,000 samples drawn for each of the four sampling techniques for each of Sites 1 through 4.

Table 2. Theoretical MSE's for each of the four sampling techniques for each of Sites 1 through 4. The variance formulas follow the notation used in CitationCochran (1977) and are detailed further in Appendix B.

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