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Errors in Vierra and Carlson's Presentation of Bartlett's Test of Significance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Dan M. Healan
Dan M. Healan*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118
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Abstract

Errors in Vierra and Carlson's (1981) presentation of Bartlett's test for significance of a correlation matrix are discussed and appropriate corrections offered.

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American Antiquity , Volume 49 , Issue 3 , July 1984 , pp. 626 - 627
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1984

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