[Babase] Birth/Statdate/Census
Catherine Markham
babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Thu, 07 Apr 2005 11:48:51 -0400
Sorry, I still don't get it. An abort is obvious - birth equals
statdate and there are no rows in census. And I get the point about
statdate being the same as the last census date. But I still can't
think of a case where we would have a live birth entered in biograph and
nothing in census. I'll ask you about it at the Friday meeting - maybe
I've missed a change to the demography update procedures.
Karl O. Pinc wrote:
>
> On 04/07/2005 08:25:24 AM, Catherine Markham wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I thought maybe I just wasn't thinking straight yesterday, but this
>> one is still confusing me this morning. When would we have a case
>> where a living animal has a statdate equal to birth? The sentence
>> makes more sense to me if you take out the word "live."
>
>
> It happens pretty much only when the animal is born. It will probably
> affect you when you enter a newborn.
>
>> Perhaps I'm missing the context for this . . . is this change follow-
>> up on a discussion you guys have been having at Duke? I didn't see
>> anything with a similar heading in the BaBase archives.
>
>
> We talked about it at Princeton. Statdate = last census when
> your alive implies Birth = Statdate when no censuses unless you're dead.
>
>>
>> Catherine
>>
>> Karl O. Pinc wrote:
>>
>>> We talked about this when we decided to have statdate
>>> be the last censused date.
>>>
>>> I've added this sentence to the biograph description:
>>>
>>>
>>> Live animals that have no associated CENSUS rows that
>>> place the individual in a group must have a Statdate
>>> equal to their Birth date.
>>>
>>> Karl <kop@meme.com>
>>> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
>>> -- Robert A. Heinlein
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
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>> Catherine Markham
>> Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
>> Princeton University
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> Karl <kop@meme.com>
> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
> -- Robert A. Heinlein
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Catherine Markham
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Princeton University
Phone: (609) 258-6898
Fax: (609) 258-2712