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  "signal": "certvas-issuer-persistence-v1",
  "name": "Certvas Issuer Reporting-Persistence Signal",
  "version": "v1",
  "sku": "AF-FUND",
  "label": "Published for research and informational use. Not administered as, and not for use as, a regulated benchmark.",
  "grain": "issuer",
  "point_in_time": "Spans are measured over reported period_end; first/latest_observed_at are the earliest and latest vintages the issuer was seen at. No look-ahead: every value is derived from records already in the archive.",
  "snapshot_hash": "d83a8c18d27eec65",
  "caveats": [
    "This measures persistence of REPORTING IN THE CERTVAS ARCHIVE, which is a lower bound on issuer longevity and not a measurement of it. A short history may mean a young issuer or late-started coverage; the two are indistinguishable from inside the data.",
    "lindy_expected_additional_years is numerically equal to years_reported by construction. It is a mechanical restatement of observed age under the Lindy heuristic, published so the assumption is visible. It is NOT a forecast, and Certvas does not assert that issuer lifetimes are Lindy-distributed.",
    "No market capitalisation, adoption or subjective risk term is included. Certvas holds no market-data licence, and weighting real data by asserted constants would present a guess as a computation. No projected future values are published.",
    "Annual (FY) periods only. An issuer with fewer than 2 distinct annual periods is EXCLUDED rather than scored low, because its span is unmeasured rather than short.",
    "continuity_ratio = distinct reported years / (calendar years spanned). It falls below 1.0 when a year inside the span is missing, which may be a genuine reporting gap or a Certvas coverage gap \u2014 the signal cannot tell you which."
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