[Babase] Adding data on old skipped censuses

Karl O. Pinc babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Wed, 08 Jun 2005 19:39:33 +0000


On 06/08/2005 10:01:59 AM, Catherine Markham wrote:

> I found a couple cases where an entire day was left out of a group's  
> census.  I can create a "mini-census" table just for one date with  
> all the group members to put the presence/absence data in the census  
> table.  But in terms of getting the information into the members  
> table (and having the interpolation recalculated), running reinterp  
> would require me individually typing in each group member's sname.   
> Instead, would it work to simply do valcen and upcen as if the  
> "mini-census" table were a new census (despite the fact that later  
> census dates are already in the database)?

A little mini-census should work fine.  You can do all the "missing"
censuses in each group in one mini-census correction if you like.

Karl <kop@meme.com>
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