[Babase] Agonism and Grooming Dates

Lacey Maryott lacey.maryott at duke.edu
Mon Mar 26 10:53:41 EDT 2007


Leah,
   Oh ok! Gotcha!  Thanks for clarifying :)

Lacey

Leah Gerber wrote:
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> Lacey,
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> We did not always enter the dates for grooming. I only asked you to in 
> anticipation of this change in practice. For this update I was 
> planning to get rid of the dates as we were not ready to use them yet.
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> Leah
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> Leah (and everyone),
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>     I got a chance to  analyze the dates, and I was wondering, when we
> enter the data, from photo copies to excel, we are entering an exact
> date for the groomings.  When does that get lost, and why? I guess my
> question is, IF we are going to continue to push all groomings to the
> 1st of the month, do we even need to be entering those dates in the
> excel sheet, do we want to start entering them with true dates, or what
> are we ultimately wanting to do with this? This is a question for
> everyone I guess.  In terms of the agonism data, with the help of Karl's
> query, I looked at 1994, 1995, 1996, and 1997 month by month plotting
> each day of the month.  Susan and I discussed the results and it looks
> like from 1995 on, agonisms were entered with true dates.  The
> distrubution is pretty even across the days of each month.  But like
> Leah had said in an earlier stream, grooming data has always been pushed
> to the first, with some point samples exceptions, except in 1994-1998.  
> In those years, every grooming was pushed to the first.  Hopefully this
> can help us to in some way move forward, now that we have some concrete
> time frames for when things were and weren't pushed.  Karl, what is
> needed next for you to be able to run the conversion?  Do you need more
> than what I have provided here?
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> Lacey
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> Lacey Maryott
> Department of Biology
> Duke University
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Lacey Maryott
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Duke University
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