13th June 2011, 01:17 PM
Dinosaur Wrote:As a slight digression, any of you clever mathematical types (I'd reached my limit at/before A level - solid D grade...) know if Baysian analysis can be used on OSL/TRM data etc (ie other dating techniques that produce statistical date ranges) and if so whether data from different techniques can be combined? - have a nightmare job where am going to get some OSL or C14 and occasional strat relationships, but not too many of any individual type, and pretty much no dateable finds unless things take a sudden turn for the better, but the possibility of some clever maths might affect what/how to dig
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Bayesian statistics as I (imperfectly) understand them is all about combining different data without messing up the combined error expression. So yes you should be able to combine OSL dates with other stuff.
Not sure of the practicalities though, I've only done it with C14 dates. Check out Oxcal or the Sheffield Uni one...er..think its called BCAL.
If you've only got OSL dates for a single event but no other info you can do a 'pooled mean' of the dates to get a tighter range....I think