Bwigg: An Internet facility for Bayesian radiocarbon wiggle-matching
The integrated calibration of radiocarbon determinations and contextual information based on Bayesian statistical inference is known as 'Bayesian calibration'. Bayesian calibration was developed in the 1990s and there is software available, or under development, to perform various differen...
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| description | The integrated calibration of radiocarbon determinations and contextual information based on Bayesian statistical inference is known as 'Bayesian calibration'. Bayesian calibration was developed in the 1990s and there is software available, or under development, to perform various different types of applications: BCal, OxCal, Cal25 or CalPal; see also BCal, in Internet Archaeology. However, no software is available for performing fully Bayesian wiggle-matching including an outlier analysis. Wiggle-matching is used when a floating chronology of radiocarbon dates needs to be fixed in the calendar scale. In this article the technique of Bayesian wiggle-matching is outlined, including outlier considerations, and an explanation given of the type of results obtained. In particular the usage of the software Bwigg is described, an Internet-based software for Bayesian wiggle-matching. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f631113e1b8d488ebc2b00e101f7ca2e2024-01-02T10:11:15ZengUniversity of YorkInternet Archaeology1363-53872003-01-011310.11141/ia.13.2 Bwigg: An Internet facility for Bayesian radiocarbon wiggle-matchingJ. Andrés Christen0Centro de Investigación en MatemáticasThe integrated calibration of radiocarbon determinations and contextual information based on Bayesian statistical inference is known as 'Bayesian calibration'. Bayesian calibration was developed in the 1990s and there is software available, or under development, to perform various different types of applications: BCal, OxCal, Cal25 or CalPal; see also BCal, in Internet Archaeology. However, no software is available for performing fully Bayesian wiggle-matching including an outlier analysis. Wiggle-matching is used when a floating chronology of radiocarbon dates needs to be fixed in the calendar scale. In this article the technique of Bayesian wiggle-matching is outlined, including outlier considerations, and an explanation given of the type of results obtained. In particular the usage of the software Bwigg is described, an Internet-based software for Bayesian wiggle-matching.http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue13/christen_index.htmlarchaeologybayesian inferenceradiocarbonwiggle matchingoutliers |
| spellingShingle | J. Andrés Christen Bwigg: An Internet facility for Bayesian radiocarbon wiggle-matching Internet Archaeology archaeology bayesian inference radiocarbon wiggle matching outliers |
| title | Bwigg: An Internet facility for Bayesian radiocarbon wiggle-matching |
| title_full | Bwigg: An Internet facility for Bayesian radiocarbon wiggle-matching |
| title_fullStr | Bwigg: An Internet facility for Bayesian radiocarbon wiggle-matching |
| title_full_unstemmed | Bwigg: An Internet facility for Bayesian radiocarbon wiggle-matching |
| title_short | Bwigg: An Internet facility for Bayesian radiocarbon wiggle-matching |
| title_sort | bwigg an internet facility for bayesian radiocarbon wiggle matching |
| topic | archaeology bayesian inference radiocarbon wiggle matching outliers |
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