The ReprojectME! Program Version 2.1.5
The ReprojectME! Program was written to make the
process of reprojecting ArcView shapefiles easier to accomplish than in the
ArcView Projection Utility Wizard or by using the Projector extension that
also ships with ArcView. The appropriate projection systems for the Near
East were not always included in every version of ArcView. The
program supports conversion of ArcView shapefiles, ArcInfo coverages and
coordinate lists in eight different ASCII text configurations; and it supports
reprojection of individual points. It supports about 30 different map
projections commonly used in the Middle East and Greece. Press the ReprojectME!
button below to go to the download page.
The RankSize Program, Version 3.2
The RankSize Program is designed to help analyze
archaeological site distributions using the rank-size rule and a Monte-Carlo
simulation to test whether an observed site distribution is significantly
different from a sampled log-normal distribution. Essentially, the program
asks the question, "If the site universe from which the observed sample was drawn
actually conformed to a log-normal distribution, what is the likelihood of
drawing a sample from this population with a K- value greater than or equal to
that observed in the real data?" If the values from the simulation exceed
those in the real data a sufficient number of times, it can be inferred that the
observed sites probably do not deviate very much from a log-normal distribution,
and the greater deviations can be caused by simple sampling error. The program
reports the percentage of runs in which the simulation values exceed the observed value,
and this number may be used as a rough estimate of probability of obtaining a difference
as large or larger than the observed, by chance selection from a true log-normal
population. Rather than producing a simple "pass/fail" answer at a pre-determined
alpha level, the use of a probability figure allows more equivocal results
to be judged (see Savage, 1997; Falconer and Savage, 1995; abstracts from
these articles are on my Abstracts
Page). Press the RankSize button below to go to the download page.
