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Posts on ancient DNA, population genetics and prehistory, written by Nexju users from their own qpAdm and PCA runs on published ancient genomes.

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  • PCA5 min read

    Entropy-Rescaled PCA, Step by Step

    How entropy-rescaled PCA turns map positions into distances between groups: the rescaling curve, the four steps, a worked example with two individuals, and a plain versus rescaled comparison on a Southeast Balkans series.

    Mvagnus Albertus

  • qpAdm6 min read

    qpAdm in Three Steps

    What qpAdm asks, how it computes and where it fails: a short guide to reading a qpAdm result without reading more into it than the test supports.

    Mvagnus Albertus

  • Medieval58 min read

    Medieval Germany and England in entropy-rescaled PCA distances

    Nearest groups, sides and betweenness for 53 medieval, Viking-age and ancient groups on entropy-rescaled PCA maps: which ordinal statements survive a change of panel, map and origin, and which do not.

    • PCA
    • Map
    • Dates
    • PCA

    Mvagnus Albertus

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