<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Cliff,<div><br></div><div> We have fixed the problem in an upcoming version of the package. It had to do with the way BaSTA was calculating the average ages of death from the MCMC output. It has noting to do with the fit of the model or the estimates. </div><div><br></div><div> As soon as the package is uploaded we will announce it to the BaSTA mailing list. This should happen in the next couple of days.</div><div><br></div><div> Best,</div><div><br></div><div> Fernando<br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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<br><div><div>On Oct 30, 2013, at 7:37 PM, Cliff Cunningham <<a href="mailto:cliff@duke.edu">cliff@duke.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear BaSTA,<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The lifetables I produce with BaSTA invariable show no deaths in the first age interval, but this is because the ages are rounded to 1: </div><div><br></div><div>
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</tbody></table><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>The documentation says that:</div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Helvetica; ">DeathAges<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>A vector of ages at death. These can be precise (e.g. 5.4 yrs) or rounded to the integer year (e.g. 5 yrs).</div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">I don't know if this would change the model fit, but I suspect that precise DeathAges would eliminate the unrealistic "zero" for mx (or qx) during the first time interval.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I can't find in the BaSTA manual the instruction to produce the DeathAges vector as precise real numbers. Any help would be appreciated.</span></div><div>
<div style="font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span></div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>All the best!</div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Cliff Cunningham</div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> Professor</div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Biology Department</div><div style="font-size: 12px; "> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Duke University</div><div style="font-size: 12px; "> 130 Science Drive</div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Durham NC 27708<br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Phone 919-660-7356<br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><a href="http://www.biology.duke.edu/cunningham">http://www.biology.duke.edu/cunningham</a></div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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