[Basta-users] out$lifetable errors

[Colchero, Fernando]

Dear Cliff,

   Were all birth times in 1978? If that's the case, then the life table cannot be constructed because it uses non-truncated individuals (i.e. only those that were born during the study). Still, we do have a bug, since the model should report that more explicitly. We'll try to fix it as soon as possible.

   Best,

   Fernando


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On Nov 7, 2011, at 11:03 AM, Cliff Cunningham wrote:


	Dear BaSTa,
	After several runs I have typed  out$lifetable and got the following

	> out$lifetable
	NULL

	I should report I got several warning messages (see bottom) when I ran the following: 
	Survival parameters converged appropriately. 
	DIC was calculated
	.Warning messages:
	1: In max(DeathAges, na.rm = TRUE) :
	  no non-missing arguments to max; returning -Inf
	2: In max(wa) : no non-missing arguments to max; returning -Inf
	3: In MakeLifeTable(x, ax = 0.5, n = 1) : NAs introduced by coercion


	My code was as follows, 

	out <- basta(object = Males.dat$newData, studyStart = 1979, studyEnd = 1982, burnin=1000 ,niter=10000, nsim=4, parallel=TRUE, ncpus=4)

	In this one I had all the birthdays at 1978, and first captures in 1979.




	Here are the errors from the 
	Multiple simulations finished.
	Total MCMC computing time: 3.91 minutes

	Thanks so much!!

	    Cliff Cunningham


	        Professor
	Biology Department
	     Duke University
	        130 Science Drive
	Durham NC 27708
	
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	http://www.biology.duke.edu/cunningham




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