archaeological excavations on the western part of the central iranian plateau, known as the qazvin plain provides invaluable information about the sedentary communities from early occupation to the later prehistoric era. despite the past archeological data, chronological studies mostly rely on the relative use of the bayesian modeling for stratigraphically-related radiocarbon dates. the current...

Within the frequentist structural equation modeling (SEM) framework, adjudicating model quality through measures of fit has been an active area methodological research. Complicating this conversation is research revealing that a higher measurement portion SEM can result in poorer estimates overall than lower models, given same misspecifications. Through population analysis and Monte Carlo simul...