poolDates

Computes a combined weighted mean and error and carries out a statistical test for internal consistency.

Enables the calibration and analysis of radiocarbon dates, often but not exclusively for the purposes of archaeological research. It includes functions not only for basic calibration, uncalibration, and plotting of one or more dates, but also a statistical framework for building demographic and related longitudinal inferences from aggregate radiocarbon date lists, including: Monte-Carlo simulation test (Timpson et al 2014 <doi:10.1016/j.jas.2014.08.011>), random mark permutation test (Crema et al 2016 <doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0154809>) and spatial permutation tests (Crema, Bevan, and Shennan 2017 <doi:10.1016/j.jas.2017.09.007>).

Enrico Crema

rcarbon

Calibration and Analysis of Radiocarbon Dates

Andrew Bevan

R. Kyle Bocinsky

Martin Hinz

Philip Riris

Fabio Silva

poolDates function

<dl><dt>x</dt>
<dd>A vector of uncalibrated radiocarbon ages</dd>
<dt>errors</dt>
<dd>A vector of standard deviations corresponding to each estimated radiocarbon age</dd>
<dt>id</dt>
<dd>A vector of event/object identifiers to be matched with radiocarbon ages. If not supplied all radiocarbon ages are assumed to be from the same event/object.</dd>
<dt>F14C</dt>
<dd>Whether calculations are carried out in F14C space or not. Default is TRUE.</dd></dl>

Arguments

Combine radiocarbon ages from the same event. — poolDates

<dl>

<dt>x</dt>
<dd>A vector of uncalibrated radiocarbon ages</dd>


<dt>errors</dt>
<dd>A vector of standard deviations corresponding to each estimated radiocarbon age</dd>


<dt>id</dt>
<dd>A vector of event/object identifiers to be matched with radiocarbon ages. If not supplied all radiocarbon ages are assumed to be from the same event/object.</dd>


<dt>F14C</dt>
<dd>Whether calculations are carried out in F14C space or not. Default is TRUE.</dd>

</dl>

poolDates: Combine radiocarbon ages from the same event.

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