Kline: Oceanic islands data

In rmcelreath/rethinking: Statistical Rethinking book package

Oceanic islands data

Description

Data on historic tool complexity and demography in various Oceanic islands societies. There are three data tables: (1) Kline is the basic data table; (2) Kline2 contains latitude and longitude columns; and (3) islandsDistMatrix is a matrix of pairwise distances between islands, in thousands of kilometers.

Usage

data(Kline)
data(Kline2)
data(islandsDistMatrix)

Format

1. culture : Name of island culture

2. population : Historical population size

3. contact : low or high contact rate with other islands

4. total_tools : number of tools in historical tool kit

5. mean_TU : another measure of tool complexity

6. lat : latitude of island

7. lon : longitude of island

8. lon2 : longitude coded for ease of plotting

9. logpop : natural logarithm of population

References

Kline, M.A. and R. Boyd. 2010. Proc R Soc B 277:2559–2564.

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