Afterword

Bart Danon; Daniel Jew; Myles Patrick Lavan

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Afterword

Bart Danon, Daniel Jew, Myles Patrick Lavan

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This short chapter recapitulates the substantive advances made by the individual chapters in this volume before closing remarks on the difference between using probability to represent epistemic uncertainty and modelling variability, two exercises that are easily confused, and on the use of models to answer historical questions.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The uncertain past
Subtitle of host publication	probability in ancient history
Editors	Myles Lavan, Daniel Jew, Bart Danon
Place of Publication	Cambridge
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Pages	297-302
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781009121873
ISBN (Print)	9781009100656
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009121873.010
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2022

Keywords

Uncertainty
Variability
Probability
Modelling
Ancient history
Monte Carlo simulation
Evidence
Probability density function (PDF)
Estimate
Historiography

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