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The
standard practice in studies of Greek metrology is to derive
the lengths of possibly used foot units from building dimensions,
but without the use of an appropriate statistical method the
validity of these studies remains questionable; D. G. Kendall's
cosine quantogram analysis combined with Monte Carlo simulation
is demonstrably a statistically valid method. In this paper
the method is employed to study two key metrological questions:
how do the number of building dimensions and the different
measurement noise levels effect the results of cosine quantogram
analyses? An artificial data set used in the computer simulations
is based on the fourth-century BC Arsenal inscription.
Keywords: Greek architecture, cosine quantogram analysis,
Monte Carlo simulation, metrology, foot unit
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