Bayesian inference for partial orders from random linear extensions: power relations from 12th Century Royal Acta
由随机线性扩展推断偏序:十二世纪王室文书中的权力关系
In the eleventh and twelfth centuries in England, Wales and Normandy, Royal Acta were legal documents in which witnesses were listed in order of social status. Any bishops present were listed as a group. For our purposes, each witness-list is an ordered permutation of bishop names with a known date or date-range. Changes over time in the order bishops are listed may reflect changes in their authority. Historians would like to detect and quantify these changes. There is no…