Calibration and Summarisation of Radiocarbon Dates

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Documentation for package ‘carbondate’ version 1.1.0

• DESCRIPTION file.
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alces	Example real-life data - Alces in Yukon and Alaska
armit	Example real-life data - Population Decline in Iron Age Ireland
bison	Example real-life data - Bison in Yukon and Alaska
buchanan	Example real-life data - Palaeo-Indian demography
CalibrateSingleDetermination	Calibrate a Single Radiocarbon Determination
cervus	Example real-life data - Cervus in Yukon and Alaska
equus	Example real-life data - Equus in Yukon and Alaska
FindPosteriorMeanRate	Find Posterior Mean Rate of Sample Occurrence for Poisson Process Model
FindPredictiveCalendarAgeDensity	Find Predictive Estimate of Shared Calendar Age Density from Bayesian Non-Parametric DPMM Output
FindSummedProbabilityDistribution	Find the summed probability distribution (SPD) for a set of radiocarbon observations
GenerateOxcalCode	Outputs code suitable for running in OxCal from a series of radiocarbon determinations
human	Example real-life data - Humans in Yukon and Alaska
intcal04	IntCal04 calibration curve
intcal09	IntCal09 calibration curve
intcal13	IntCal13 calibration curve
intcal20	IntCal20 calibration curve
intcal98	IntCal98 calibration curve
InterpolateCalibrationCurve	Interpolate a calibration curve at a set of calendar ages
kerr	Example real-life data - Irish Rath
mammuthus	Example real-life data - Mammuthus in Yukon and Alaska
PlotCalendarAgeDensityIndividualSample	Plot Posterior Calendar Age Estimate for an Individual Determination after Joint Calibration
PlotConvergenceData	Plot KL Divergence of Predictive Density to Assess Convergence of Bayesian Non-Parametric DPMM Sampler
PlotGelmanRubinDiagnosticMultiChain	Plot Histogram of the Gelman-Rubin Convergence Diagnostic for Multiple Independent MCMC Chains
PlotGelmanRubinDiagnosticSingleChain	Plot Histogram of the Gelman-Rubin Convergence Diagnostic for a Single MCMC Chain
PlotNumberOfClusters	Plot Number of Calendar Age Clusters Estimated in Bayesian Non-Parametric DPMM Output
PlotNumberOfInternalChanges	Plot Number of Changepoints in Rate of Sample Occurrence for Poisson Process Model
PlotPosteriorChangePoints	Plot Calendar Ages of Changes in Rate of Sample Occurrence for Poisson Process Model
PlotPosteriorHeights	Plot Heights of Segments in Rate of Sample Occurrence for Poisson Process Model
PlotPosteriorMeanRate	Plot Posterior Mean Rate of Sample Occurrence for Poisson Process Model
PlotPredictiveCalendarAgeDensity	Plot Predictive Estimate of Shared Calendar Age Density from Bayesian Non-Parametric DPMM Output
PlotRateIndividualRealisation	Plot Individual Realisations of Posterior Rate of Sample Occurrence for Poisson Process Model
PolyaUrnBivarDirichlet	Calibrate and Summarise Multiple Radiocarbon Samples via a Bayesian Non-Parametric DPMM (with Polya Urn Updating)
PPcalibrate	Model Occurrence of Multiple Radiocarbon Samples as a Variable-Rate Poisson Process
pp_uniform_phase	Example artificial data - Uniform Phase
shcal04	SHCal04 calibration curve
shcal13	SHCal13 calibration curve
shcal20	SHCal20 calibration curve
two_normals	Example artificial data - Mixture of Normal Phases
WalkerBivarDirichlet	Calibrate and Summarise Multiple Radiocarbon Samples via a Bayesian Non-Parametric DPMM (with Walker Updating)