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The day-book's missing days
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Claim (verbatim)
The desert fort of Krokodilo filed daily report ostraca — a dated administrative pulse that should tick every day the system worked. The gaps in the recovered day-sequence are therefore diagnostic: if losses are pure preservation noise, missing days should scatter like random deletions; if the reporting institution itself failed in episodes — patrol absences, raids, command changes — gaps should clump far beyond chance. Distinguishing the two is a clean statistical question on published dated series, and it calibrates, for one place where we can check, how much of a documentary gap is silence of the archive versus silence of the institution. If gaps clump, then absence of evidence elsewhere in the documentary record carries recoverable institutional information too.
Prediction clause (verbatim)
In the dated day-report series from Krokodilo and comparable praesidia in papyri.info, the distribution of gap lengths between attested days departs from the geometric distribution implied by independent random survival, with overdispersion significant at p<0.01 and runs of 10 or more consecutive missing days over-represented. Primary clause: the overdispersion verdict — a statistical test.
Kill-dataset (verbatim)
papyri.info (O.Krok. dated report ostraca).
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This conjecture is linked to the following pages on Inferpedia, an encyclopedia of the missing — working atlas pages, some still early scaffolding.
Provenance
Run: Fresh agent generation · model: claude-fable-5
Generated blind by claude-fable-5 in a single Write from the inline prompt alone, with no file reads, web access, or database queries.
Novelty / leakage triage
anticipated in the literature — this exact test has never been run
The Krokodilo day-journals (O.Krok. 1, daily mail log of AD 109) are published and analyzed by Cuvigny, but the statistical gap-structure test (overdispersion vs random-deletion geometric baseline) on the dated series is un-run.
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