Question: In the article Material Culture as Memory: Combs and Cremations in Early Medieval Britain (Early Medieval Europe, Vol. 12, Issue 2, pp. 89128), H. Williams

In the article €œMaterial Culture as Memory: Combs and Cremations in Early Medieval Britain€ (Early Medieval Europe, Vol. 12, Issue 2, pp. 89€“128), H. Williams discussed the frequency of cremation burials found in 17 archaeological sites in eastern England. Here are the data.
In the article €œMaterial Culture as Memory: Combs and Cremations

a. Obtain the mean, median, and mode of these data.
b. Which measure of center do you think works best here? Explain your answer.

83 64 46 48 523 35 34 265 2484 46 385 21 86 429 51 258 119 2

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a The mean number of cremation burials is calculated first by summing all 17 data values presented which results in 4977 and then dividing this sum by 17 Thus the mean is 2928 This figure is already rounded to one more decimal place than the original data Calculating the median requires ordering the data from the smallest to the largest values 21 34 35 46 46 48 51 64 83 86 119 258 265 385 429 523 2484 Since the number of data values is odd the median will be the middle data value ... View full answer

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