Hi,
in this hot Italian summer, I am struggling with the writing of the main analytical section of my PhD dissertation (archaeology, prehistory)

. I often happen to make use of Correspondence Analysis in an exploratory perspective, in order to find latent patterns of association in large contingency tables. The aim of the analysis is to pinpoint activity areas within settlements on the basis of different proportions of objects found at various findspots and in different domestic units.
Besides, I happen to use also various coefficients of association for categorical variables, as well as cluster analysis. Not to mention parametric and non-parametric hypothesis tests to compare two or more samples (e.g., t-test, Mann-Whitney, 1-way anova, Kruskall-Wallis).
I am also trying to grasp the basics of Social Network Analysis, since I feel that this approach could prove to be interesting for some aspects of the issues I am faced with.
Cheers,
Gm