[Babase] Statdate problem for End June 2009

Niki Learn nlearn at princeton.edu
Fri Oct 30 12:47:25 EDT 2009


Hmm.  When we have any kind of cycling (example a cycle has begun in June or
December but has not been completed by the last census day and so is left
dangling) or reproductive data (example a birth estimated to be at the end
of June but after the last census date) that occurs at the end of an update
period we hold it over for the next update.

 

I can see why we might not want to do that for agonisms in December
(although you guys do male agonisms for the first half of the year
separately?) since I guess we'd want them included in the 09b update in
order to count them when doing the ranks.  Does it matter for June?  Will
you do the 09a male agonisms before the 09b update?

 

I can add a census column for 6/29 BUT the animals that Courtney did not
census (mostly juveniles) would still not have a change in statdate since
they would still get no census record for that day.  I guess for male ranks
only the adult male interactions matter though so it would be okay if only
the adults were marked through the 29th?

 

Niki

 

From: babase-bounces at eeblistserv.Princeton.EDU
[mailto:babase-bounces at eeblistserv.Princeton.EDU] On Behalf Of Lacey Roerish
Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 12:34 PM
To: The Baboon Database Project
Subject: [Babase] Statdate problem for End June 2009

 

Hi All!

    I am working on the uploads of data and have found june to be a bit
tricky.  Since Courtney is often in the field collecting data on 'last days'
when the team isn't doing a complete census, the 'censored' statdate of
individuals in Weaver's group is 6-27, however courtney has (at least)
agonism data for animals on 6/29.  

Is the best solution here to add demog notes? It looks like Courtney did a
partial census that day.  I know we set up a rule that we wouldn't enter her
partial censuses unless a demographic change occured.. but maybe we should
add to this these special june and december cases where we are likely to
have interaction data corresponding with her partial census.  If we don't
use that partial census, the animal's statdate is before its final
interactions for the 6 month update period.

Let me know if I need to do anything on my end to make this happen so I can
get these data in.

Thanks
Lacey

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Department of Biology
Duke University
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