Methods and record sources
The Sources Behind the Lifecycle
Trace each date to its record, and each calculation to its method.
Four documented matters
The opening collection contains four reviewed matters from the recovered LWDA/DIR archive. Their matter source library retains seven original court PDFs and the complete DIR notice workbook, with page and cell references for each plotted date. The approval endpoints identify signed orders; they do not assert completed funding or distributions.
This selected collection describes those records. It is not a census, a representative sample or a prediction. Where an earlier event is supported by a later court recital rather than an independently retrieved original, the matter page identifies that basis.
Keep sources with working records
Each matter can carry a source description and direct HTTP or HTTPS link. Notice, complaint, milestone and endpoint links identify the documents behind particular dates. Record details, saved sessions and image metadata preserve those references. Editing or importing produces working records; the tool does not automatically verify newly entered dates or URLs.
Use the notice, filed complaint, docket entry, order, agreement or other record that supports each date and its meaning. Milestones keep their supplied titles. No certification, manageability ruling, exhaustion period or deadline is inferred. Entered data stays in browser memory until you explicitly save or export it.
Compare the same recorded phases
The phase band includes only displayed matters in the selected endpoint category—approval or resolution—with both complaint and milestone dates and one exact milestone label. Its three mean intervals use the same records and denominator. Missing events are excluded from this band; they are never estimated. The qualifying count, endpoint category and selected label stay visible beside the result.
Outcome filters and search define the displayed records. Approval and resolution medians follow their separate endpoint categories within that view. Pending observations remain separate because an observed-through date does not establish either endpoint.
Measures of Location
Approval intervals and resolved durations have separate medians. Each sorts the displayed records in its own endpoint category; with an even number, the median is the arithmetic mean of the two middle durations. Pending ages are excluded from both. Settled share divides displayed settled matters by displayed resolved matters and does not include approval records. The phase band uses arithmetic means from one shared group: displayed records with the selected endpoint category, complaint date and exact named milestone. No missing date is filled in, and unlike milestones or endpoint categories are not pooled.
Censoring
A pending record runs from its notice date to its explicit observed-through date. That endpoint marks the end of the supplied observation. Approval intervals, resolved durations and pending ages are reported separately. A descriptive median for the displayed approval or resolution records is not a censoring-adjusted estimate of a population’s time to that event. NIST explains censoring using reliability examples, including different observation times. The Lifecycle applies that distinction to recorded matter dates and does not fit a survival model or predict an outcome. Its reviewed opening collection ends at signed approval orders; the underlying records distinguish those dates from future funding and distributions.
Numbers and Dates — Date Objects
Each date is a real Gregorian calendar date written as YYYY-MM-DD. The tool subtracts integer civil-day numbers, equivalent to counting UTC midnight boundaries. Same-day events have zero elapsed days. Leap years follow the Gregorian century rule. The computation does not use local time, daylight-saving offsets, approximate months, business-day adjustments or deadline-extension rules. Optional complaint and named milestone dates must fall within the supplied notice-to-end interval. These checks establish a consistent displayed timeline, not legal timeliness or a required procedural sequence.