New biograph maturity date columns Was: Re: [Babase] CADET

Karl O. Pinc babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Wed, 6 Oct 2004 10:59:58 -0500


> The other thing that I think we need to add for males is "ranked by" 
> and "matured by" (and perhaps dispersed by, although the first two 
> are by far the most important) columns or a new table. This is 
> because when a male enters the study population already as an adult 
> he never gets a matured or ranked date, creating the contradictory 
> situation that a male who appears to have never matured is 
> functioning as an adult male. This has been a constant source of 
> confusion that we've had to work around.

How would the new "ranked by" and "matured by" be different from
the current rankdate and maturedate?

Karl <kop@meme.com>
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