Studies of the demography of past populations involving deterministic life tables can be criticized for ignoring the errors of estimation. Bayesian methods offer an alternative, by focusing on the uncertainty of the estimates, although their results are often sensitive to the choice of prior distributions. The aim of this study is to explore a range of Bayesian methods for estimating age at death for a population of nomadic warriors—Scythians from the Black Sea region.

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对黑海镰刀菌种群死亡的年龄进行古谱分析：使用贝叶斯方法进行的探索

过去关于确定性生命表的人口统计学研究由于忽视了估计误差而可能会受到批评。贝叶斯方法通过关注估计的不确定性提供了一种替代方法，尽管它们的结果通常对先验分布的选择敏感。这项研究的目的是探索一系列贝叶斯方法来估计游牧战士（黑海地区的斯基泰人）的死亡年龄。