Here is how I see it. Say a person was born in location A, and died in location B and no other dates are entered in Legacy.. At the time of the census, he could have been living in A or B or somewhere else. The program has to "guess" where he was living at the time of the census. If the date of the census is closer to his birth than his death, the program will probably "guess" he was living at A during the census. But since his family could have moved immediately after his birth, the program can't be sure that is where he was during the census so it assigns a percentage. The closer the census date is to his birth date the higher the percentage. Make sense?
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Ron Ferguson <ronfergy....@tiscali.co.uk>wrote: > I agree that the Help Files description is very, very imprecise. I took my > first degree in the sciences which included pure maths, and hence > statistics. I still am not able to come to a definite conclusion as to the > meaning in Help, nor can I safely conclude what is the best way of using > the > tool because of the lack of clarity. It has been mentioned before on this > list, when we asked for at least an indication of the algorithm used to > arrive at the percentage is given. > > Ron Ferguson > http://www.fergys.co.uk/ > > -----Original Message----- > From: Don Brown > Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 4:24 PM > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Census List options > > Percentage of probability > > > > Don Brown > Orangeville, Ontario, Canada > > -----Original Message----- > From: Pat Hickin [mailto:pph...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 11:20 AM > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Census List options > > Thanks, Randy, I guess I'm obtuse but I still don't get it! What does > "location percentage " > mean? -- I thought percentages had to do with numbers, not with places. > > Percentage of what?? > > Thanks, > Pat > > On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Randy Clark <ceddaco...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Found in Legacy Help: > > > > *Exclude individuals from the Report with location percentages less > > than X % *- Each location Legacy finds is given an estimated location > > percentage dependent upon the location's date and how close was to the > > census date. Locations with low percentages can be excluded from the > > census report by selecting a percentage value as the minimum acceptable. > > > > > > > > On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Pat Hickin <pph...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Whatever does this sentence in Census List > Report Options mean? > >> "Exclude individuals from the Report with location percentages less > >> than (50--or whatever) %" > >> > >> I never ever heard of a location percentage. > >> > >> Pat > >> > > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and > on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
