[Babase] Agonism and Grooming Dates

Lacey Maryott lacey.maryott at duke.edu
Mon Mar 26 10:48:24 EDT 2007


Leah (and everyone),

     I got a chance to  analyze the dates, and I was wondering, when we 
enter the data, from photo copies to excel, we are entering an exact 
date for the groomings.  When does that get lost, and why? I guess my 
question is, IF we are going to continue to push all groomings to the 
1st of the month, do we even need to be entering those dates in the 
excel sheet, do we want to start entering them with true dates, or what 
are we ultimately wanting to do with this? This is a question for 
everyone I guess.  In terms of the agonism data, with the help of Karl's 
query, I looked at 1994, 1995, 1996, and 1997 month by month plotting 
each day of the month.  Susan and I discussed the results and it looks 
like from 1995 on, agonisms were entered with true dates.  The 
distrubution is pretty even across the days of each month.  But like 
Leah had said in an earlier stream, grooming data has always been pushed 
to the first, with some point samples exceptions, except in 1994-1998.  
In those years, every grooming was pushed to the first.  Hopefully this 
can help us to in some way move forward, now that we have some concrete 
time frames for when things were and weren't pushed.  Karl, what is 
needed next for you to be able to run the conversion?  Do you need more 
than what I have provided here?

Lacey

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Lacey Maryott
Department of Biology
Duke University
ph: 919-660-7306
fax: 919-660-7293
Lacey.Maryott at duke.edu 



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