[Babase] Birth/Statdate/Census
Karl O. Pinc
babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Thu, 07 Apr 2005 15:08:39 +0000
On 04/07/2005 08:25:24 AM, Catherine Markham wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I thought maybe I just wasn't thinking straight yesterday, but this
> one is still confusing me this morning. When would we have a case
> where a living animal has a statdate equal to birth? The sentence
> makes more sense to me if you take out the word "live."
It happens pretty much only when the animal is born. It will probably
affect you when you enter a newborn.
> Perhaps I'm missing the context for this . . . is this change follow-
> up on a discussion you guys have been having at Duke? I didn't see
> anything with a similar heading in the BaBase archives.
We talked about it at Princeton. Statdate = last census when
your alive implies Birth = Statdate when no censuses unless you're
dead.
>
> Catherine
>
> Karl O. Pinc wrote:
>
>> We talked about this when we decided to have statdate
>> be the last censused date.
>>
>> I've added this sentence to the biograph description:
>>
>>
>> Live animals that have no associated CENSUS rows that
>> place the individual in a group must have a Statdate
>> equal to their Birth date.
>>
>> Karl <kop@meme.com>
>> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
>> -- Robert A. Heinlein
>>
>>
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>
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> Catherine Markham
> Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
> Princeton University
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Karl <kop@meme.com>
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