[Babase] mpis-further thoughts after using

Karl O. Pinc kop at meme.com
Sun Mar 23 15:27:55 EDT 2008


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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