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Cluster Density Analysis of Dimensional Socio‐Cultural Evolution Models
Author(s) -
BOWDEN EDGAR
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1971.73.1.02a00070
Subject(s) - branching (polymer chemistry) , cluster (spacecraft) , sample (material) , discounting , geography , statistical physics , sociology , economic geography , genealogy , evolutionary biology , anthropology , history , computer science , biology , physics , economics , materials science , finance , composite material , thermodynamics , programming language
A quantitative method is briefly described whereby societal density contours may be constructed at successive cross‐sectional levels of the three‐dimensional, branching, socio‐cultural evolution models described in American Anthropologist 1969, 71(5): 864–870. Considered with the branching model, these cross‐sections help to reveal the underlying evolutionary structure, discounting random variations in the sample or excessively complex branchings in large‐sample models.