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Hello all,<br>
I spent a nice portion of today looking into the differences in
members. There weren't that many, so I thought it worth it to ensure
the changes were all expected differences. I copied only those rows
marked (-) or (+) (distinct differences) into Word, which constituted
28 pages. I was able to narrow it all down to only 4 pages of
differences which I thought should be discussed. Below, I have
outlined the "types" of issues which arose.<br>
<br>
1. Almost 2 full pages of the 4 are interpolation issues at the end of
1988 and beginning of 1989, placing animals in groups 1.1, 1.2, 1.3,
and 1.4. The last census in 1988 is Dec 21. So, the question, which
Karl posed earlier, is do we override the interp program, and Manually
change everything through Dec 31 to group 1.00 and then anything after
12-31 to grp 1.* (whichever applies). This way, we are manually
telling the interp program how to interpret these dates. Karl has
mentioned he could potentially add a "Supergroup" as a column to
members view, and thus, any of these censused under the Alto's
supergroup during this time would appear as "in" Alto's supergroup.<br>
<br>
2. The second group of problems is how individuals get interpreted when
they die. It seems animals are put in "unknown" grp 9.00 on their
statdate. So on the day they die, or days immediately following...
they are marked as having "unknown" group membership. This is the
documentation associated with this assignment<br>
<br>
<ul type="disc">
<li>
<p>Individuals are no longer always placed in a group, the group in
which they were last censused, on their <a
href="https://papio.biology.duke.edu/babase_system.html#Biograph-Statdate"
title="Statdate">Statdate</a> and this “<span class="quote">location</span>”
no longer interpolates.</p>
<p>When first written, the interpolation procedure was designed to
work with females, who are unlikely to be absent from their group for
more than 28 days. (Twice the 14 day interpolation limit.) By placing
an individual in a group on their Statdate, the group in which they
were last censused, the females were assured a row in <a
href="https://papio.biology.duke.edu/babase_system.html#MEMBERS"
title="MEMBERS (Day-by-day Group Membership)">MEMBERS</a> for every
day of their lives. Further, analysis was simplified as each of these
rows associated the females with their group (even though at the end of
their lives they may not have been present in the group.)</p>
<p>The new interpolation procedure does not consider the Statdate
in its determination of the individual's group membership on that day,
although, as always, when the Statdate is a death date it does stop
interpolation.</p>
</li>
</ul>
-- It just seems like when a baby dies, and its mother carries it for a
week, its location isn't unknown, or when an animal is seen being
eaten, or half its body is found. I just thought I would point out
this issue that stood out, even though the documentation explains why
this decision was made.<br>
<br>
3. Another substantial set of the outstanding issues were Adult males
which have demog notes stating they are seen alone, so their group will
need to be changed to 10.00 for those days.<br>
<br>
4. The last group popped up because of incomplete census days which
need to be entered as demog notes. Once that gets taken care of, those
will clean up.<br>
<br>
Issue Number 1 should be decided on by Jeanne and Susan. 3&4 are
something that either I can fix, or will be fixed once we get demog
notes in. Number 2, I'm guessing isn't something we can do anything
about without going back through and finding the circumstances of each
and every observed or known death and changing those, so should I
disregard those as "issues" altogether?<br>
<br>
That's what we have for now on the census data, and thus, other than
Leah and I Working on doing 2006B in both foxpro and postgres, just to
ensure the programs work, I think we are done with foxpro??? YAY!<br>
<br>
everyone high-five your neighbor! :)<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Lacey<br>
<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Lacey Maryott
Alberts Lab
Department of Biology
Duke University
ph: 919-660-7306
fax: 919-660-7293
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Lacey.Maryott@duke.edu">Lacey.Maryott@duke.edu</a> </pre>
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