[Babase] FYI, Nearest neighbor checking

Karl O. Pinc babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Thu, 4 Nov 2004 15:55:15 -0600


The concensus among Karl, Daphnie and Cathrine is that
we won't have the database check the point samples to see that the 
nearest
neighbor really is the right kind of nearest neighbor, i.e.
nearest adult male really is both adult and male.

Daphnie says that these sort of errors can be thrown out
during analysis.

I like the idea of checking but there also comes a point when
it's time to stop.  It would be easy to check for sex, but less
so to check for adulthood, IIRC.

Anyone else care to chime in?

Karl <kop@meme.com>
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