A Simulation Study of Plow Zone Excavation Sample Designs: How Much is Enough

1993 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 263-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay F. Custer
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Data Base ◽  
Simulation Study ◽  
Plow Zone

A sample simulation study was undertaken using a data base from an eighteenth-nineteenth century farmstead site in Delaware where the plow zone over the site core was completely excavated. Systematically stratified aligned samples based on quadrats provided more accurate, more precise, and more efficient estimates than did transect-based designs. Sampling fractions greater than 25 percent did not return significant increases in accuracy, precision, and efficiency relative to the costs of the larger samples.

Imperialism, Botany and Statistics in early Nineteenth-Century India: The Surveys of Francis Buchanan (1762–1829)

1986 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 625-660 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marika Vicziany
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Data Base ◽  
Statistical Evidence ◽  
Early Years ◽  
East India Company ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Indian Economy ◽  
British Rule ◽  
The People

Buchanan arrived in India in 1794 and left in 1815. He was employed by the East India Company for these twenty years in a number of capacities but he is chiefly remembered today for two surveys he conducted: the first of Mysore in 1800 and the second of Bengal in 1807–14. These surveys have long been used by historians, anthropologists and Indian politicians to depict the nature of Indian society in the early years of British rule. Recently economic historians, Bagchi in particular, have used the ‘statistical’ tables compiled by Buchanan as a data base against which later statistical evidence about the Indian economy is measured. Bagchi believes that by doing this he can furnish firm proof of the extent to which British rule was detrimental to the people of India in the nineteenth century.

India and the Great Divergence: Assessing the Efficiency of Grain Markets in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century India

2008 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 393-437 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROMAN STUDER
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Data Base ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
Grain Markets ◽  
Grain Trade ◽  
Great Divergence ◽  
Modern Europe ◽  
Similar Stage

By analyzing a newly compiled data base of grain prices, this article finds that prior to the nineteenth century the grain trade in India was essentially local, while more distant markets remained fragmented. It was only in the second half of the nineteenth century that these premodern structures were transformed, and a national grain market had emerged. In theGreat Divergencedebate, theCalifornia School'sclaim that early modern “Asia” reached a similar stage of economic development as early modern Europe is therefore rejected for India.

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