[Babase] Ranker Tweaking

Lacey Maryott lacey.maryott at duke.edu
Mon Jun 30 14:19:25 EDT 2008



Lacey Maryott wrote:
> Hi All,
>
>    I just started pulling together the ALM ranks for Susan for 2007. 
> One possible issue I am seeing in the ranker output is that immigrant 
> males for any given month get put in all the way at the end of the 
> subadults and juveniles, rather than at the top, right under the last 
> male. Susan, I'm not sure if this is something you will see as a big 
> deal, but it seems as though it will make it moderately harder to fit 
> them in and carry them through month to month. I am going through the 
> matrices as I make them and highlighting any new comers, etc. I just 
> didn't know how important it is to you that those new immigrant males 
> be nearer the top, under ADM's but above juveniles and SAMs.
I guess this can also be done by simply sliding them up after the 
ranking is completed, so maybe this is a non-issue!

sorry
>
>   I also don't know how much would be involved in changing this. Jun, 
> any idea how tough it would be to distinguish between newborn boys 
> being put at the end of the list versus immigrant males being put in 
> the middle?  This also begs the question is Jun still our go-to for 
> these types of changes and where are we on that transition? I have 
> lost track.
>
> I'll proceed for now creating the soft-copy matrices for 2007.
>
> Thanks!
> Lacey
>

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Lacey Maryott
Alberts Lab
Department of Biology
Duke University
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