AnthroTools: An R Package for Cross-Cultural Ethnographic Data Analysis
AnthroTools: An R Package for Cross-Cultural Ethnographic Data Analysis
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DOI：
10.1177/1069397116680352
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发表时间：
2017-02-01
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Jamieson-Lane, Alastair
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作者：
Purzycki, Benjamin Grant;Jamieson-Lane, Alastair
随着大规模合作、跨文化的民族志研究变得越来越容易实现，某些民族志方法和分析也应该相应地变得更加可用、更具吸引力和适应性。因此，我们创建了AnthroTools，这是一个免费的开源语言R的软件包，其中包含各种适合多因素自由列表分析和贝叶斯文化共识建模的工具和函数。自由列表数据提取是人种学研究的一种简单技术。然而，特别是对于跨文化的自由列表数据，背景准备是相当大的，并且通常需要特定的软件。此外，尽管当前的文化共识分析工具提供了非常复杂的分析，但它们也需要专门的软件或具有计算繁重的方法。AnthroTools加速了这些技术，快速执行诊断，并为进一步分析准备数据。在这篇文章中，我们简要地讨论了这个包为跨文化研究者提供了什么，并提供了它的一些功能的基本例子。
As large-scale collaborative, cross-cultural ethnographic research becomes easier and easier to realize, certain ethnographic methods and analyses should be correspondingly more available, inviting, and accommodating. We have therefore created AnthroTools, a package for the free, open-source language R, with a variety of tools and functions suitable for both multi-factor free-list analysis and Bayesian cultural consensus modeling. Free-list data elicitation is a simple technique for ethnographic research. However, especially for cross-cultural free-list data, background preparation is considerable and often requires specific software. In addition, although current cultural consensus analysis tools offer very sophisticated analyses, they also either require specialized software or have computationally taxing methods. AnthroTools expedites these techniques, rapidly performs diagnostics, and prepares data for further analysis. In this article, we briefly discuss what this package offers cross-cultural researchers and provide basic examples of some of its functions.