README.md

In alastair-JL/AnthroTools: Some custom tools for anthropology

AnthroTools is a small collection of statistical tools for Anthropology, for use using the statistical programme R.

The package contains tools for both Freelist and Consensus Analysis (see references).

To install AnthroTools, run the following:

install.packages("devtools")

library("devtools")

install_github('alastair-JL/AnthroTools')

library(AnthroTools)

help("AnthroTools")

References

Oravecz, Z., Vandekerckhove, J., & Batchelder, W. H. (2014). Bayesian Cultural Consensus Theory. Field Methods, 1525822X13520280. http://doi.org/10.1177/1525822X13520280

Purzycki, B. G., and Jamieson-Lane, A. (2017). AnthroTools: An R package for cross-cultural ethnographic data analysis. Cross-Cultural Research, 51(1): 51-74. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1069397116680352

Romney, A. K., Weller, S. C., & Batchelder, W. H. (1986). Culture as Consensus: A Theory of Culture and Informant Accuracy. American Anthropologist, 88(2), 313-338.

Smith, J. J., & Borgatti, S. P. (1997). Salience Counts-And So Does Accuracy: Correcting and Updating a Measure for Free-List-Item Salience. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 7(2), 208-209. http://doi.org/10.1525/jlin.1997.7.2.208

Smith, J. J., Furbee, L., Maynard, K., Quick, S., & Ross, L. (1995). Salience Counts: A Domain Analysis of English Color Terms. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 5(2), 203-216. http://doi.org/10.1525/jlin.1995.5.2.203.

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