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Roman stamped tiles of the legio XXI Rapax are under investigation coming from different findspots in Germania Superior. Their chemical composition was measured by X-ray fluorescence analysis. Here we propose an approach for comparing the measurements coming from different laboratories. First results suggested that the set of tiles can be divided into seven clusters by the Ward method (Jain and Dubes 1988). The main part of this paper consists of confirming these results by cluster validation via bootstrapping such as introduced in Dolata et al. (2007). Here a cluster of tiles that contains all findings of Biesheim is of special archaeological interest. The supposed provenance Straßburg-Königshofen can be rejected from the statistical point of view.
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Bartel, HG., Mucha, HJ., Dolata, J. (2010). Geochemical and Statistical Investigation of Roman Stamped Tiles of the Legio XXI Rapax . In: Locarek-Junge, H., Weihs, C. (eds) Classification as a Tool for Research. Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10745-0_46
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