[Babase] MEMBERS Comparison - absent on birth

Karl O. Pinc babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Fri, 30 Sep 2005 19:36:48 +0000


On 09/30/2005 12:24:54 PM, Catherine Markham wrote:
> 
> So the new MEMBERS table worked correctly in placing WEG in his  
> matgrp, 2.20, on his birthday.  But it doesn't seem to have worked  
> correctly with regard to group placement when interpolating from his  
> birth to the next locating census.  Specifically, I don't understand  
> the logic that would place WEG in Group 9 (both from the program  
> standpoint and the biology standpoint).  It looks to me like it is  
> using his absence in the matgrp to computer a Halfway to Absence  
> Interval.

Yup.  Looks like a bug to me too.
Karl <kop@meme.com>
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