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Pipelines for generating a standard data format for bird data
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Edit documentation on 'Age_calculated' in the standard protocol #167

Open cwtyson opened 3 years ago

cwtyson commented 3 years ago

The standard protocol currently says that 'Age_calculated' is based on 'RingAge' from the individual table, which is a bit misleading as both 'Age_calculated' and 'RingAge' are derived from 'Age_observed'. It makes sense that 'Calculated_age' isn't based on 'RingAge' since information in the Individual data table shouldn't be needed to derive something in the Capture data.

To make this clearer, I think the documentation just needs to be modified to say that 'Age_calculated' is based on the 'RingSeason' and 'BreedingSeason' and that an exact age is only calculated for individuals banded as chicks.