The returned list provides various summary statistics and timeseries of the observed and simulated data:
timeseries: a data frame containing various CIs and:
calBP: a vector of calendar years BP.
expected.sim: a vector of the expected simulation (mean average of all N simulations).
local.sd: a vector of the local (for each year) standard deviation of all N simulations.
model: a vector of the model PDF.
SPD: a vector of the observed SPD PDF, generated from data.
index: a vector of -1,0,+1 corresponding to the SPD points that are above, within or below the 95% CI of all N simulations.
pvalue: the proportion of N simulated SPDs that have more points outside the 95% CI than the observed SPD has.
observed.stat: the summary statistic for the observed data (number of points outside the 95% CI).
simulated.stat: a vector of summary statistics (number of points outside the 95% CI), one for each simulated SPD.
n.dates.all: the total number of dates in the whole data set. Trivially, the number of rows in data.
n.dates.effective: the effective number of dates within the date range. Will be non-integer since a proportion of some dates will be outside the date range.
n.phases.all: the total number of phases in the whole data set.
n.phases.effective: the effective number of phases within the date range. Will be non-integer since a proportion of some phases will be outside the date range.
n.phases.internal: an integer subset of n.phases.all that have more than 50% of their total probability mass within the date range.
The default N = 20000 can be increased if greater precision is required, however this can be very time costly.