Opinions on: line as a functional unit

[tavie]

I don't know if this is what dashstofsk meant but for identifying unusual line start/line end statistics, I find it helpful to 1) use each cluster's distribution in the middle of the line (excluding line start/line end) to predict its expected distribution at line start/line end, and ii) then compare it to the cluster's actual performance at line start and line end. 

I also find it helpful to cut out top rows because the special processes at play there may distort the stats.  And also separate scribal sections from each other.  For instance the Herbal A folios treat line start initial o differently compared to the Balneological and Stars sections, and this might be concealed in overall stats.

 The question that remains is how much of the "LAAFU" phenomenon on the VMS can be explained by this effect.

If indeed any (for the reasons I've already set out earlier in this post or another thread)