Pausanias Analysis

Connectedness feature reference

Maximum Action Cosine with a Neighbor

The highest cosine similarity between the focal place's action-count profile and that of any operational neighbour.

Stored model field: max_action_cosine_with_neighbor

+0.196standardized coefficient
Survivescurrent direction
255observations summarized
Action profilesfeature group

How It Is Calculated

Represent each place as counts of figures by canonical action category, calculate cosine similarity with every local neighbour, and retain the maximum; empty profiles contribute zero.

What a higher value means

At least one neighbour has a more proportionally similar action profile.

Important qualification. The maximum describes the closest single match and can conceal a very different remaining neighbourhood.

Current Model Cohort

These descriptive statistics use the current labelled cohort after aliases have been collapsed to one row per MANTO place.

GroupN MinimumQ1 MedianMean Q3Maximum
All labelled places2550.0000.0000.0000.1790.0001.000
Survives2040.0000.0000.0000.1810.0001.000
Does not survive510.0000.0000.0000.1730.0001.000

Examples from the Current Data

Examples are descriptive checks on the calculated feature. Their outcome labels report what Pausanias says; they do not establish that the feature caused survival or abandonment.

Examples with high recorded values

PlaceMANTO ID ValuePausanias reports
🌍 Amyclai (Laconia)97187611.000Survives
🌍 Brauron (Attica)113092681.000Survives
🌍 Caria (Asia Minor)81951881.000Survives
🌍 Charadra (Messenia/Laconia)113071861.000Survives
🌍 Clazomenai (Ionia)81951351.000Survives
🌍 Coroneia (Thessaly)113073801.000Survives

Examples with low recorded values

PlaceMANTO ID ValuePausanias reports
🌍 Abai (Phocis)102746870.000Survives
🌍 Abia (Messenia)101135050.000Survives
🌍 Acacesion (Arcadia)101261850.000Survives
🌍 Ace (Arcadia)102145170.000Survives
🌍 Acharnai (Attica)101530560.000Survives
🌍 Acriai (Laconia)101494180.000Survives

Interpretation in the Predictive Model

Its current standardized coefficient is +0.196, pointing toward survives. This means that a one-standard-deviation increase changes the fitted log odds in that direction while the other included features are held fixed.

Because the connectedness features are correlated and the model's out-of-fold performance is weak, this is a conditional associationβ€”not a standalone ranking, causal effect, or historical explanation.

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