[Babase] Dcause

Susan Alberts babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Sun, 9 May 2004 14:12:56 -0400


Thanks for the clarification Daphne, this makes sense. I guess my 
feeling is that we should proceed as I suggested in my last email, 
namely as follows:

  (1) enter the list of dcauses that Jeanne and Jessica assigned that 
have not yet been entered into babase, but which you have now sent to 
Steph.

(2) Give everyone else that currently has a 0 dcause and a status of 
1 an unknown dcause (7). This would expedite getting dcauses that 
HAVE been assigned into babase but would not bog us down with the 
assigning itself (in the case of those animals that haven't been 
assigned), and it would allow Karl to go forward with out worrying 
about this error, which potentially seems like an upstream error.

(3) Clarify, on our list of "errors not yet corrected", exactly which 
individuals we have and have not assigned a final accurate dcause to.

I want to be clear about procedure here. Steph will take the biograph 
that we now have and update the dcauses, then send it to you Daphne 
and you will upload the new dcauses, right?

Susan

>  > >2) There are many individuals with a status of 2 or 3 that have
>>  >dcauses.  We haven't been using status codes other than 1 lately, but
>>  >they're in there for the older data.  Do we want these to have dcauses,
>>  >or not?  Most, but not all, seem to be 4s (old unknown).
>>
>>  But, I thought that all the old codings were taken out of biograph
>>  after I asked about this last year? Whatever else happen right now I
>>  think we need to be very sure that only ONE coding scheme is
>>  represented in the dcause column. Has this not happened? I thought it
>>  had.
>
>Sorry for the confusion about this, Susan.  I was talking about the 
>list of OLD
>dcauses (for the individuals with non-0 status and statdates before 1 Jul 01).
>These were the old dcauses BEFORE I changed them to 0.  Currently in Biograph,
>everyone with a non-0 status and a statdate before 1 Jul 01 has a dcause of 0.
>But I kept the old information to help with the assigning of the new dcauses,
>which I have sent to Steph.  So what I really meant was, what should Steph do
>with these individuals with a status of 2 or 3 who were previously assigned
>dcauses?  Do we want them to have dcauses or not?
>
>I have sent Steph this list of individuals with old dcauses, the old dcause
>support table, the definitions of the new dcauses, and the files with the
>dcauses that Jeanne and Jessica assigned.
>
>Daphne
>
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