[Babase] possible interpolation problem

Leah Gerber lgerber at duke.edu
Thu Jul 27 15:27:26 EDT 2006


Hello,

After speaking with Jeanne on the phone today I think I  have a good 
idea of where to start looking for more information about the particular 
males listed below.

1. For the males in study groups (1,2, and3) we should be able to find 
the first day that these males were seen (most likely the first day of 
monitoring for many). I will look in the monitoring binders at the start 
of monitoring for those groups and also look  at the thesis entitled 
"Dominance and Reproduction"  for information on the first set of males. 
We should be able to fill in some information and then place the males 
in group 9 for the time periods that we have no information. This will 
still be left censured data but more useful than what is in members 
currently. We will also have more day to day information when the old 
census records are put in Babase.

2. For the males who are found in group 4, 5, and 6,  I will look in the 
other group notes and other group censuses to see if I can find any 
extra other information. Otherwise it seems sensible to place these 
individuals in the particular group on the "dateout" but in group 9 for 
the time period before that.

Please let me know if this does not seem like a reasonable way to 
proceed in correcting this misleading  data.

Leah

Leah Gerber wrote:
> Hello Karl, Jeanne, Susan, Catherine (or anyone who could help)
>
> Russ was looking at some immigrant males in babase and found the 
> following strange occurrences. The following males are listed as 
> immigrants (matgrp of 9) in biograph but are in study groups in 
> members and census from their birthdates on. I think that the matgrps 
> are correct and that the members and census rows are not (otherwise 
> some of these guys stayed in their matgrps for 18 years). I am 
> wondering if anyone has any idea why the data is like this and how we 
> would go about fixing it. Before I start blindly flipping through 
> binders to find out when they really did show up in study groups I 
> thought somebody might have some insight. Could it just be an 
> interpolation issue (I hope)? I checked and the data is the same in 
> Foxpro and in the new system.
>
> Thanks,
> Leah
>
> sname birth          matgrp  members.grp   census.grp    census.status 
> census.cen
> BJX   1960-12-29          9.00       1.00           1.00         
> B        f
> COW   1960-12-29         9.00       1.00           1.00         
> B        f
> DUT   1960-12-29          9.00       1.00           1.00         
> B        f
> IVA   1960-12-29          9.00       1.00           1.00         
> B        f
> MAX   1960-12-29          9.00       1.00           1.00         
> B        f
> PET   1960-12-29          9.00       1.00           1.00         
> B        f
> SIN   1960-12-29          9.00       1.00           1.00         
> B        f
> STB   1960-12-29          9.00       1.00           1.00         
> B        f
> ALY   1968-01-01          9.00       2.00           2.00         
> B        f
> BAR   1966-07-02          9.00       2.00           2.00         
> B        f
> HAR   1968-01-01          9.00       2.00           2.00         
> B        f
> LIP   1966-07-02          9.00       2.00           2.00         
> B        f
> SEK   1966-07-02          9.00       2.00           2.00         
> B        f
> SLK   1968-01-01          9.00       2.00           2.00         
> B        f
> WYM   1966-07-02          9.00       2.00           2.00         
> B        f
> DIX   1971-08-21          9.00       3.00           3.00         
> T        f
> NGU   1971-08-20          9.00       3.00           3.00         
> B        f
> NUG   1975-08-25          9.00       3.00           3.00         
> T        f
> RAD   1975-09-21          9.00       3.00           3.00         
> B        f
> TUL   1971-08-20          9.00       3.00           3.00         
> B        f
> LER   1971-09-12          9.00       4.00           4.00         
> B        f
> PIG   1972-10-13          9.00       4.00           4.00         
> B        f
> SHO   1975-01-01          9.00       4.00           4.00         
> B        f
> BON   1972-07-01          9.00       5.00           5.00         
> B        f
> DOR   1972-01-01          9.00       6.00           6.00         
> B        f
>
>
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