Zooarchaeological Analysis with Log-Ratios
Assemble Reference
Condense Measure Log-Ratios
Example dataset
Value Matching by Thesaurus Category
Log Ratios of Measurements
Remove Cases Missing All Measurements
Standardize Nomenclature
Subtaxonomy under taxonomical category
Thesaurus Management
Thesaurus Readers and Writers
Includes functions and reference data to generate and manipulate log-ratios (also known as log size index (LSI) values) from measurements obtained on zooarchaeological material. Log ratios are used to compare the relative (rather than the absolute) dimensions of animals from archaeological contexts (Meadow 1999, ISBN: 9783896463883). zoolog is also able to seamlessly integrate data and references with heterogeneous nomenclature, which is internally managed by a zoolog thesaurus. A preliminary version of the zoolog methods was first used by Trentacoste, Nieto-Espinet, and Valenzuela-Lamas (2018) <doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0208109>.