Sentences with phrase «particular calendar age»

Subjective Bayesians will probably throw up their hands in horror at it, since it would be unphysical to think that the probability of a sample having any particular calendar age depended on the shape of the calibration curve.

Not exact matches

The distribution for the measurement of carbon - 14 age has (we're assuming) the same standard deviation for every calendar year, so it's always that case that we get some particular carbon - 14 measurement that was «unlikely», since any particular value for the measurement error is unlikely.

You finally filter out from the collection of trials all those with a particular measured C14 age, and look at the distributions of true calendar ages that generated it, compared against the measured calendar age distribution each algorithm output.

You submit a physical sample which has a particular true calendar / C14 age combination — a random point on the calibration curve — with some input distribution.

Most of the information in that distribution is from your knowledge of how the ages of archaeological artefacts are distributed, and in particular that they are likely to be more uniform in calendar age than C14 age.