[Babase] Interpolation coding done!
Catherine Markham
babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Fri, 14 Oct 2005 16:20:06 -0400
> I have also gone over the interpolation documentation again
> to make sure everybody's concerns are addressed. In particular
> take a look at the text surrounding Figure 10, and the footnotes
> and text of CENSUS.Status, the D value.
Hi Karl,
Sorry I missed the second part of your message about the interpolation
documentation before. Turns out I do just have a quick question about
the text describing "D" status in CENSUS.
The text says:
D (demography) The animal was noted, in the field notebooks or
elsewhere, to be in a group but was not marked present in a field census
on that day. There is an associated DEMOG row associated with the CENSUS
row. The individual may or may not have been marked “absent” on the same
group's field census for the day.[10]
[10] D usually occurs when a male is seen alone or in a non-census group.
I read this to say that a Demog Note will override an absence for an
animal in a particular group, but I didn't think this was possible in
practice. I did the following to query the current CENSUS table and
didn't find any records (assuming the query steps below look correct):
select * from census into table census2
select * from census, census2 where census.sname = census2.sname and
census.date = census2.date and census.grp = census2.grp and
census.status = "D" and census2.status = "A"
Am I misreading the documentation or rusty on the rules for Demog Notes?
Thanks,
Catherine