[Babase] Morris (MOR) and interpolation rules in members table
+incomplete censuses!
Karl O. Pinc
kop at meme.com
Fri Aug 21 21:45:19 EDT 2009
On 08/21/2009 08:30:44 PM, Susan Alberts wrote:
> I'm afraid I've lost track of this a bit, sorry.
>
> I think I may have had the wrong impression of what would be done.
>
> I thought that you were putting in a new character in the census
> upload program that would allow us to indicate when an animal was not
>
> censused in a group on a given day. I.e., incomplete censuses would
> now have three possible states for each indivdiaul:
> Confirmed Present
> Confirmed Absent
> Status unknown; not censused (this would be the new one).
>
> But reading some of the later emails I'm concerned I misunderstood.
> Can someone confirm or summarize what the decision is?
You got it right. The confusing part is that "Confirmed Present"
is indicated by the absence of any character at all. ("Confirmed
Absent" is the O (capital o) character. I will add N to mean
"Status unknown; not censused".
Karl <kop at meme.com>
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