[Babase] Female ranks question - female visits second group

Catherine Markham babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Tue, 14 Jun 2005 11:05:37 -0400


Hi all,

While working through the 2004 female ranks, we came onto a case where a 
female appears in two groups in the same month.  We've talked about
how situations like this are handled with rankings during group 
fissions, but I'm not sure that we've addressed the topic for cases when 
the groups are relatively stable.

The particular details for this instance involve Vogue's appearance in
Omo's group for a few days in June 2004 (she was born into Dotty's group 
but went with Viola's after Dotty's fissioned).  There were no decided 
agonisms for her in Omo's group in June.  The ranker program 
automatically put her in the Omo's June matrix because she is present in 
the group that month.  I did not know how to get her out of the rank 
matrix, so I had to manually remove her ranking from the BaBase ranks 
table for both ALF and ADF ranktypes.

Just wanted to pass this along to the listserv to see if anyone had 
suggestions for a better way to handle something like this in the future.

Thanks,
Catherine