The evolution of P/F vs T/K raises important questions

[npcompl33t]

Here too, I do not see why that page should be included in Bio.  It has no illustrations, but has those letters in the left margin.  The top half seems to be a single parag with an extra-fancy initial.  It may turn out to be the cover page of Bio, like You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is presumably the cover page of Herbal; but we should not expect it to have similar statistics.  I would put it in an "Unk76r1" section by itself. 

I think layfield and davis convincingly show that it is connected, simply by being a part of the bifolia, but sure, i don't think that is too critical for the purposes of this analysis. 


A few follow-ups to your point. 

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The negative intercept does not indicate a “puff-free” beginning of the line. 

X measures the total length of a line, not a position within that line. An intercept cannot tell us that puffs begin after the 10th or 25th glyph.

I checked their actual positions in first lines:

• Herbal A: 65 of 136 begin with p/f.
  
• Herbal B: 22 of 54 begin with p/f.
  
• Stars: 152 of 243 begin with p/f.
  

Herbal B’s slope is steeper: 1.14 additional p/f occurrences/10 additional glyphs, versus 0.80 for Herbal A

This chart may be a better way of addressing this, its x-axis measures actual glyph position within a line. For this, I have restricted the data to clean first lines with at least 40 glyphs. 

   

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Weirdo glyphs:

removing every first line with unreadable words leaves the negative Herbal intercepts almost unchanged:

• Herbal A: −0.85 -> −0.85
  

• Herbal B: −2.45 -> −2.24
  

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Some of your hypothesis about proposed exclusions hold, but some do not. The Herbal A and Stars ones work reasonably well, and the first-line associations weaken in Pharma and Bio. 

   

   

But Bio’s whole-block association remains, while Herbal B weakens substantially under your proposed combined exclusions. 

• Bio total count vs words -> blocks over 150 words drops the Pearson correlation from .7 to .4, so there is a decline.
  
• Bio: head count versus head length -> Heads under 25 glyphs and the nine-puff head pearson goes from 0.40-> 0.25
  
• Herbal B: Triangles; blocks under 25 or over 70 words , pearson goes from 0.57 -> 0.25
  

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The compact-Pharma point near 60 words and five puffs is f100r.22–27. 56 words and five occurrences. It is not f102v2.30–36. If you were referring to the crossfold-Pharma panel, its point at exactly 60 words and five puffs is f89v2.7–10.

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Weak total-count correlation does not equate to little body use.

   

Head lines are strongly enriched, but Herbal B is not uniquely responsible for the higher body rates. Uncertain paragraph spacing could still affect these numbers.

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So far, I'd agree these results support paragraph-position dependence, with differences among sections. However i don't think the broader questions are resolved.