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From: Lee Hoffman <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Statistical Report
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 15:24:37 -0400
References: <351F89D30B94074CA4EF76696E56411301A250DC@susday234.corp.ncr.com>
In-Reply-To: <351F89D30B94074CA4EF76696E56411301A250DC@susday234.corp.ncr.com>


Sholder, Kevin L wrote:
>I've not used this before and created one today and have some questions
>about what it means. The following columns are pretty obvious as what
>they mean:
>
>POP - population
>AVG - average
>
>These are not so obvious as to what they mean or how they are used:
>
>STD DEV - Standard Deviation??

Standard Deviation - same as defined in any statistics text. Basically
you could say the AVG (average) is plus or minus this value which give you
an idea of how close any on person might come to the average.

>MIN - Minimum (minimum what?)
>MAX - Maximum (maximum what?)

Minimum age or minimum number of Tags.

>ID MIN - ????
>ID MAX - ????

Based on the Min & Max columns. So if ID Min as you show is #22080 then
that person has the lowest age at first marriage (-1707). Similarly for
the Max (# 46047 was 1733 years old at first marriage). In the case of
Tags, it is the person (ID#) having the most # of the Tag Group.

The idea here is partly informational. But it is also a good "health
check" for your data. That is, take a look at person # 2208 and check
their Birth date and the date of their marriage as one or both are probably
wrong. You will find that they married before this person was
born! <g> Similarly, person # 46047 seems to have been rather old when
they were married.

You may want to run the Audit report as well. Set it up to have large
values of errors (say age 0 for the "Married before" ages. Then after
correcting those, run it again using a value of 5, then 10, then 15. At
about this point you will start getting false "errors" on the audit
report. That is (assuming 15 as the value) you will be told that some
persons are in error because they married before age 15, but you say that
nothing is wrong because they did marry when he/she was age 14. In such a
case, just ignore the Audit entry and go on to the next entry.

Hope this helps -

Lee Hoffman/KY
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