Data and Code for Publication "Estimating inter-individual Mahalanobis distances from mixed incomplete high-dimensional data: Application to human skeletal remains from 3rd to 1st millennia BC Southwest Germany"

Data and code for publication: H. Rathmann, S. Lismann, M. Francken, A. Spatzier, Estimating inter-individual Mahalanobis distances from mixed incomplete high-dimensional data: Application to human skeletal remains from 3rd to 1st millennia BC Southwest Germany. Journal of Archaeological Science 156: 105802. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2023.105802

The repository contains:

“R code for FLEXDIST.txt”: R code for executing FLEXDIST, a tool to estimate inter-individual Mahalanobis-type distances, taking correlations among variables into account, applicable to multiple variable scales (nominal, ordinal, continuous, or any mixture thereof), accommodating missing values, and handling high-dimensional data. Please refer to the latest version of this repository for the most up-to-date R code.

“data.csv”: Pre-processed dataset comprising 85 dental morphological features collected from 64 archaeological human remains from Final Neolithic to Early Iron Age Southwest Germany used for analysis.

“complete dataset.xlsx”: Complete dataset comprising 199 dental morphological features collected from 144 archaeological human remains from Final Neolithic to Early Iron Age Southwest Germany.