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For Future: Hunting file does not equal dissection file #70

Open stijnhofhuis opened 9 months ago

stijnhofhuis commented 9 months ago

For the future: Dorothee raised the point that some foxes get lost or otherwise don't end up in the dissection file, while they are reported as hunted. We should perhaps have used this (higher) figure from the hunted file to calculate the proportion aged in each year (although i'm not sure if they are checked for male/female?). A future improvement

ChloeRN commented 5 months ago

If the numbers are substantial, then yes, that should be accounted for. One issue there is to what degree these non-dissected foxes were assigned a sex, and whether their probability of ending up in dissection file depended on sex assignment (or lack thereof).

In practice, it is a small adjustment, but will require some thinking.