Standard burial site analysis

[MartinHinz]

I suggest implementing a set of functions for a standard workflow of burial site analysis.
This could involve

• a data structure describing a cemetery (I know, you hate lists...)
• summary statistics
• varnastat analysis of the burial items
• measuring inequality using gini and lorenz curve from ineq
• ca and seriation
• clustering
• 'Social Status Analysis' like BASP
• 14C calibration
• ... (add more)

This would include and refer also to feature_requests #2 and #3 ...

[nevrome]

Still against the list - prove me wrong ;-)

Beyond that I like the idea of such a workflow. What do you mean by summary statistics? What method could our package deliver that's not already implemented somewhere else?

I would also like to implement excavation analysis tools - I will open a new issue for this topic. Edit: Done #5.

[MartinHinz]

It is not so much about new methods, it is more about bundling also already existing methods and packages into a coherent workflow, that ideally make basic standard analysis at mouse click (or key stroke..). From my experience a lot of archaeologists do not work with R, because it is to straining or to tedious for them to collect and learn every package that could be of interest.

Example of summary statistics: mean, median, std for artefact abundancy in the cemetery. Very basic stuff. But nicely formated and layed out "publication ready".