Alliance-for-Tropical-Forest-Science / DataHarmonization

Code to run the data harmonization app and support cross-site analysis
https://alliance-for-tropical-forest-science.github.io/DataHarmonization/
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correction for extreme growth: mention "outliers" or "error" #48

Open gabrielareto opened 1 year ago

gabrielareto commented 1 year ago

It can be more intuitive for some users to think in terms of outliers: "Some individuals grow too much. At what point will you consider individuals an outlier / error?"

I think "error" is what we mean, right? There is no reason to truncate extreme growths (and adjust dbhs) that are not errors.

ValentineHerr commented 1 year ago

I am not quite sure what this is referring to @gabrielareto

gabrielareto commented 1 year ago

I think this is related to the unclear wording in NegativeGrowthThreshold and PositiveGrowthThreshold. I cannot run the app so I cannot confirm this now. But I think words like "outlier" or "error" can be more useful than words like "extreme", "very high", ...