[Babase] Birth/Statdate/Census

Karl O. Pinc babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Thu, 07 Apr 2005 15:08:39 +0000


On 04/07/2005 08:25:24 AM, Catherine Markham wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I thought maybe I just wasn't thinking straight yesterday, but this  
> one is still confusing me this morning.  When would we have a case  
> where a living animal has a statdate equal to birth?  The sentence  
> makes more sense to me if you take out the word "live."

It happens pretty much only when the animal is born.  It will probably
affect you when you enter a newborn.

> Perhaps I'm missing the context for this . . . is this change follow- 
> up on a discussion you guys have been having at Duke?  I didn't see  
> anything with a similar heading in the BaBase archives.

We talked about it at Princeton.  Statdate = last census when
your alive implies Birth = Statdate when no censuses unless you're  
dead.

> 
> Catherine
> 
> Karl O. Pinc wrote:
> 
>> We talked about this when we decided to have statdate
>> be the last censused date.
>> 
>> I've added this sentence to the biograph description:
>> 
>> 
>> Live animals that have no associated CENSUS rows that
>> place the individual in a group must have a Statdate
>> equal to their Birth date.
>> 
>> Karl <kop@meme.com>
>> Free Software:  "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
>>                 -- Robert A. Heinlein
>> 
>> 
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> 
>-- 
> Catherine Markham
> Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
> Princeton University
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Karl <kop@meme.com>
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