[Babase] Daphne Question - Procedures for Incomplete Censuses
Karl O. Pinc
babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Wed, 24 Aug 2005 05:14:26 +0000
On 08/22/2005 09:41:22 AM, Daphne A Onderdonk (donderdo@Princeton.EDU)
wrote:
> > Thanks Daphne, this is helpful. Just a quick question to clarify --
> >
> > these "manually interpolated" presences and and absences during
> > incomplete censuses are not flagged as a manual entry in babase
> > (status M in census), correct?
>
>
> That is correct. The uncensused individuals were manually
> interpolated on paper, and then that census day was entered as a
> regular, complete census.
The part that I don't understand here, just so we have for the
record what was done, is that when you interpolate you don't get
1 day, you get a whole series of days each a neighbor of the
next. So what determined which day got a C and which didn't?
(Also for the record, the computer would then go on to interpolate
from whatever "interpolated" C's were entered -- you'd get an
additional 14 days of group presence to either side of such "C"s.)
Or were you entering "I"s, not "C"s? (In which case the computer
will erase them and recompute them as needed anyhow.)
So this would show up as a true census for
> all individuals in the group in Census/Members - there is no
> indication in Babase that the presence/absence was interpolated for
> the uncensused individuals. No status Ms were involved.
>
> Let me know if anything else needs clarifying.
> Daphne
>
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Karl <kop@meme.com>
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