rethinking (version 2.13)

AMTL: Ante-mortem Tooth Loss Data

Description

Data from four primate genera on tooth loss and its relationship to age and sex. Used for measurement error example in the textbook.

Usage

data(AMTL_short)
data(AMTL)

Value

Format

1. tooth_class : One of Anterior, Posterior, or Premolar

2. specimen : Unique identifier for specimen

3. num_amtl : Number of teeth missing of given class

4. sockets : number of observable sockets that could be scored for missing teeth

5. age : Estimated age of speciment at death

6. stdev_age : Assigned uncertainty of age at death

7. prob_male : Estimate of sex of specimen

8. genus : Specimen genus, one of Homo, Pan, Papio, or Pongo

9. population : Region specimen originates from

References

Gilmore, C.C. 2013. A Comparison of Antemortem Tooth Loss in Human Hunter-Gatherers and Non-human Catarrhines: Implications for the Identification of Behavioral Evolution in the Fossil Record. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22275.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(AMTL)
# plot proportion lost against age
plot( d$num_amtl / d$sockets , d$age )
# }