Book contents
- The Uncertain Past
- The Uncertain Past
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Probabilistic Modelling in Ancient History
- Part I Uncertainty
- Part II Variability and Missing Data
- 5 Children and Their Impact on Family Finances in Roman Egypt
- 6 The Financial Sustainability of Grain Funds
- 7 New Approaches to the Urban Population and Urbanization Rate of the Roman Empire, AD 1 to 200
- 8 Afterword
- Index
8 - Afterword
from Part II - Variability and Missing Data
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 November 2022
Book contents
- The Uncertain Past
- The Uncertain Past
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Probabilistic Modelling in Ancient History
- Part I Uncertainty
- Part II Variability and Missing Data
- 5 Children and Their Impact on Family Finances in Roman Egypt
- 6 The Financial Sustainability of Grain Funds
- 7 New Approaches to the Urban Population and Urbanization Rate of the Roman Empire, AD 1 to 200
- 8 Afterword
- Index
Summary
This short chapter recapitulates the substantive advances made by the individual chapters in this volume before closing remarks on the difference between using probability to represent epistemic uncertainty and modelling variability, two exercises that are easily confused, and on the use of models to answer historical questions.
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- The Uncertain PastProbability in Ancient History, pp. 297 - 302Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022