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From: Kevin Sholder <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Statistical Report
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 08:46:12 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.2.20050802090720.03334e38@mail.bellsouth.net>


Lee,

Thanks for the additional advice, I have used the
audit report and cleaned up quite a few items over the
last several months. As I continue to "fix" mistakes
both will come in handy.

Again, thank you for the lesson in using these two
reports effectively...very important.

Kevin


--- Lee Hoffman <> wrote:

> At 10:50 PM 8/1/2005, Kevin Sholder wrote:
> >Thanks for your help with this and yes there are
> some irregular dates such
> >as a few that had ? In the year or month. So this
> will be helpful.
>
> While the Statistical report can certainly be
> helpful in cleaning up your
> data sets and project, the Audit report is much more
> helpful. The
> Statistical report will tell you about a few persons
> to look at for
> possible clean up, but then you would need to re-run
> the report to see the
> next persons, correct them, re-run the report, ad
> infinitum.
>
> For clean-up purposes, the Audit report would be the
> best -- starting with
> extreme comparison values and slowly
> reducing/increasing those values until
> either you have viewed and corrected everything
> and/or get lists of persons
> that all show correctly. By this last statement I
> mean that you might get
> a list of everyone married before age 18 and find
> that all on the report
> actually were married before age 18 (most probably
> age 17 and 16).
>
> Once you have finished cleanup using the Audit
> report, the Statistical
> report can give you a cross-sectional view of your
> data. In addition, if
> you run it every so often, the averages should not
> change much. Similarly
> the MINs and MAXs should not change much. When they
> do, you may want to
> look at those changes areas to see that the data is
> correctly entered. If
> you see a large increase in the number of Tags of a
> Tag Group (the MAX or
> the AVG) then you may want to check that out.
>
> POP 42403
> AVG 0.7
> STD DEV 0.6
> MIN 0
> MAX 7
>
> The above is from my main data set for the Marriage
> Tags line. It
> indicates there are 43,403 persons in the data set.
> It also indicates
> there is an average of 0.7 Marriage Tags per person.
> This kinda makes
> sense if you consider that not all persons have a
> Marriage Tag.. Note that
> the Standard Deviation is .6. This means that the
> range of Burial Tags is
> from 0.1 to 1.3. This is, of course, not quite true
> when you consider that
> some will not have a Marriage Tag (the MIN value).
> Since the AVG is thus
> skewed considerably in the lower direction. Looking
> at the MAX value of 7,
> and comparing the higher range value when the
> Standard Deviation is
> considered, you can deduce that the MAX value is
> probably much higher than
> the usual number of Marriage Tags. From this you
> can guess that a large
> number of the data set do not have a Marriage Tag
> and of those that do,
> most only have one or maybe two with the smaller
> remainder having 3, 4 or 5
> and a few having 6 & 7.
>
> Now, you ask, does this tell me anything new?
> Probably not, as logic will
> tell you most of this anyway -- more or less. But
> it can be used as a
> comparison from time to time to see if your data set
> is changing in any
> significant way. So if you suddenly find that the
> MAX is still 7 and the
> AVG has risen to .9, then you can figure that you
> have added number of
> Marriage Tags to your data set without the
> comparative increase in the
> number of persons. If this fits with what you
> recall as having entered
> then everything is fine. On the other hand, if you
> don't recall adding
> very many Marriage Tags but have been concentrating
> on say Other Tags then
> you may want to check further.
>
> Overall, the Statistical report is more of a "that's
> interesting"
> report. But serious study can make it very useful
> at times.
>
>
> Lee Hoffman/KY
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> Genealogist (TMG)
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>
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