Pausanias Analysis - Place Graph PageRank

Place Graph PageRank

A weighted network-centrality score for the focal place in the pre-Pausanias MANTO place graph.

Stored model field: place_graph_pagerank

-0.029standardized coefficient

Does not survivecurrent direction

255observations summarized

Place neighbourhoodfeature group

How It Is Calculated

Run PageRank on the undirected place graph. Repeated eligible MANTO relationships between a pair of places increase that edge's weight.

What a higher value means

The place is connected to other well-connected places through stronger or repeated place-to-place ties.

Important qualification. PageRank is relative to the imported graph and release. It is not a measure of population, political importance, or textual frequency in Pausanias.

Current Model Cohort

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

Group	N	Minimum	Q1	Median	Mean	Q3	Maximum
All labelled places	255	0.000089	0.000089	0.000232	0.000467	0.000594	0.008
Survives	204	0.000089	0.000089	0.000223	0.000426	0.000593	0.003
Does not survive	51	0.000089	0.000089	0.000318	0.000633	0.000594	0.008

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

Place	MANTO ID	Value	Pausanias reports
🌍 Thebes (Boiotia)	`8253960`	0.008	Does not survive
🌍 Arcadia	`8228863`	0.003	Survives
🌍 Argos (city)	`8228853`	0.003	Survives
🌍 Libya (North Africa)	`8253951`	0.003	Does not survive
🌍 Thessaly	`9055627`	0.003	Survives
🌍 Boiotia	`8195196`	0.003	Does not survive

Examples with low recorded values

Place	MANTO ID	Value	Pausanias reports
🌍 Acharnai (Attica)	`10153056`	0.000089	Survives
🌍 Acriai (Laconia)	`10149418`	0.000089	Survives
🌍 Agrai (Attica)	`10151548`	0.000089	Survives
🌍 Aigai (Macedonia)	`11321421`	0.000089	Does not survive
🌍 Aigiai (Laconia)	`10146647`	0.000089	Survives
🌍 Aigialeia (alt. Sicyon)	`10157818`	0.000089	Survives

Interpretation in the Predictive Model

Its current standardized coefficient is -0.029, pointing toward does not survive. 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 association—not a standalone ranking, causal effect, or historical explanation.

Related Features

Data Scope

The feature is calculated from MANTO release 19446255 using evidence dated strictly before Pausanias.
The current labelled cohort contains 255 distinct MANTO places.
The prediction target is whether Pausanias reports a place as surviving or not surviving, not its modern archaeological condition.
Feature values and examples may change when MANTO releases, links, labels, or feature definitions are revised.

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