Detection of significant demographic differences between subpopulations of prehispanic Maya from Copan, Honduras, by survival analysis.

Abstract:

:Heterogeneity and small sample size are problems that affect many paleodemographic studies. The former can cause the overall distribution of age at death to be an amalgam that does not accurately reflect the distributions of any of the groups composing the heterogeneous population. The latter can make it difficult to separate significant from nonsignificant demographic differences between groups. Survival analysis, a methodology that involves the survival distribution function and various regression models, can be applied to distributions of age at death in order to reveal statistically significant demographic differences and to control for heterogeneity. Survival analysis was used on demographic data from a heterogeneous sample of skeletons of low status Maya who lived in and around Copan, Honduras, between A.D. 400 and 1200. Results contribute to understanding the collapse of Classic Maya civilization.

journal_name

Am J Phys Anthropol

authors

Whittington SL

doi

10.1002/ajpa.1330850206

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1991-06-01 00:00:00

pages

167-84

issue

2

eissn

0002-9483

issn

1096-8644

journal_volume

85

pub_type

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