[Babase] [Fwd: conversion error - IBI]

Catherine Markham babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Thu, 01 Sep 2005 11:05:04 -0400


Hi Jeanne,

Below is a note from Leah regarding some questions about Ibis.  I 
thought I would send it to the listserv to track comments/changes.

I checked the notebooks up here and came onto the following (Leah 
mentioned that Duke doesn't have copies of these early notes):

1.  The first mention I find of Ibis is in the Stud's group monitoring 
notebook.  In June 1977, J. Walters typed out ages and descriptions of 
the baboons in the group.  He described Ibis as an adult male.  The 
birth of Ibis in BIOGRAPH is listed as 5 July 1968 with a bstatus of 9. 
  I don't see notes for monitoring of Stud's group back that far - is it 
possible that Ibis's birthdate was calculated from this initial 
observation in June 1977?

2.  Once we decide on the date of Ibis's first observation and confirm 
his birthdate, I do agree that time interval between birth and the first 
observation should place him in Group 9.  All of the records are "old 
style" codes, so placement in Group 9 will have to be done manually.

3.  The statdate of Ibis on 21 May 1979 is consistent with his last 
recorded presence in Alto's group (both in the monitoring notebook and 
CENSUS and MEMBERS tables).  If there is no info for him in any of the 
monitoring notebooks past this date, I suggest we delete his rows in 
CENSUS and MEMBERS for 22 May 1979 - 30 September 1993.  I don't 
understand the logic of changing them all to Group 9 after his statdate.

4.  I agree with changing status from 3 (missing) to 0 (alive) and 
removing the dcause of 8 (under review).

Catherine



-------- Original Message --------
Subject: conversion error - IBI
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:33:36 -0400
From: Leah Gerber <lgerber@duke.edu>
To: Catherine Markham <amarkham@Princeton.EDU>

Here is the information for IBI, starting with the original error. I am
really unsure what we should do about this one. I really could use some
help figuring this guy out. Maybe you guys have some more original data
(plus the wisdom of Jeanne) to help figure out what IBI was up to.

ERROR:  IBI: 1979-05-21: Statdate of live individuals must be =
1993-09-30, the last census date

Details:	Matgrp of 9 but in members and census in group 4 from birth
(05/07/68). In members and census after statdate of 21/05/79.
In grp 99 from 22/05/79 until 30/09/93
			
Solution: 	
Statdate: OK
Members and Census to delete: Delete records from (and including)
22/05/79-30/09/93
Members and Census to change: 1. grp 9 instead of grp 99 after statdate?
					2. see NOTE below
Biograph.status: status to alive (0) instead of missing (3)
Biograph.dcause: remove dcause of 8

NOTE: Should we change census and members rows to group 9 until IBI
first
shows up in group 4? There are no originals for 1979 at Duke so we have
no way of
knowing when IBI first showed up in Group 4.  I checked all of the OGC
data for
a record of him. None found here. Susan does not know any more
information on IBI,
perhaps Jeanne does. If she does not know anything then we will need to
talk about
a solution for this specific case. Catherine suggested possibility that
members may be correct but birthdate wrong.

Also, I don't know if we want to change the group 99 to group 9 after
the statdate or have no records in members and census after the
statdate. I don't know if this first day of group 99 was based on an
actual record of IBI or not


Leah