[Babase] mpis-further thoughts after using
Susan Alberts
alberts at duke.edu
Mon Mar 24 00:20:23 EDT 2008
OK this sounds really good, I didn't realize that you had already
sorted this out.
One issue is whether the multiple actors are entered with enough
consistency that your import program could do this. Am I right that
the format of these would always have to be the same? How exactly?
(ie spaces in the same places? etc)
Susan
On 23 Mar 2008, at 22:27, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
>
> On 03/23/2008 07:00:31 AM, Susan Alberts wrote:
>
>> One way to fix the problem is to do what I did, which is to force
>> every interaction to be dyadic, that is to split up the ones like
>> ALE vs SPY, ICA into ALE vs SPY and then a separate line for ALE
>> vs ICA. We would have to then somehow have a column that indicates
>> the relationship between the two rows, to indicate that they were
>> a joint action (or that the action was received jointly).
>
> That's the idea behind the current design. The import program
> (which does not exist) would change the "ALE vs SPY & ICA" into
> 2 dyadic interactions. Both interactions would then have the
> same Seq value to indicate that they occurred together.
>
> Karl <kop at meme.com>
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