Chronological Path Stability/Uncertainty Analysis

[Mauro]

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But it is still not certain that the statistical differences are directly due to passage of time.
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All the best, --stolfi

I take the chance of @Stolfi's post to remark about the question of 'time'.

In a sense, time is a trivial variable. We can take it for granted that different pages of the manuscript were written at different times and this implies a temporal sequence in the composition of the pages/bifolios. There might have been instances of parallelism, expecially in writing rather than composing I think, but I think it's much probable the main composition/writing method was serial.

So the variable 'time' is (trivially) a given, what really matters is 'what' changed along the time axis (if anything, but I find it very probable that something indeed changed) and how, and possibly why. Knowing how much total time elapsed would give important clues, but I can see no way to calibrate the clock.

(iirc, there's a thread somewhere here discussing the total elapsed time)