MeanDate-class: Mean Date

In kairos: Analysis of Chronological Patterns from Archaeological Count Data

Mean Date

Description

An S4 class to store the weighted mean date (e.g. Mean Ceramic Date) of archaeological assemblages.

Slots

dates

A length-p numeric vector giving the dates of the (ceramic) types expressed in rata die.

replications

A numeric matrix giving the replications.

Coerce

In the code snippets below, x is a MeanDate object.

as.data.frame(x)

Coerces to a data.frame.

Note

This class inherits from aion::TimeSeries: dates are internally stored as rata die.

Author(s)

N. Frerebeau

See Also

aion::TimeSeries

Other classes: AoristicSum-class, CountApportion-class, EventDate-class, IncrementTest-class, PermutationOrder-class, RateOfChange-class

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