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Before starting - Data import and export - Data entry and exploration - Dataset transformation - Partitions and statistics - Matrimonial Census - Outputs - Kinship Calculator - Windows and components

Before starting

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Data Import and Export

• Import

• Export

• Update

• Save

• Reset

• Conversion between formats

• Conversion to p-graph format

• Fusion of two datasets

• Virtual individuals

• Name treatment

• Anonymization of names

• Numbering of names and renumbering of individuals

• P-graphs

• File formats

• File formats for export, choice

• Text format

• Excel table format

• Pajek format

• Gedcom format

• Tip format

• Xml (Extensible markup language) format

• Prolog format

• Network types

• Network types for export, choice

• Coding general dataset informations

• Coding multiple marriages

• Coding properties

• Coding relational properties

• List of standard property codes

• Concordance table

• Types of possible codage errors

• General settings

Data entry and exploration

• Before starting: some basic rules for coding kinship data

• Enter a new dataset

• Name and describe a dataset

• Change the name of a dataset

• Acceed to the dataset

• Enter an individual

• Enter an individual"s kinship relations

• Enter more of an individual's attributes

• Virtual individuals

• Double entries

• Delete an individual, kinship relation or attribute

• Navigation through a dataset

• Search for names in a dataset

• Get an individual's pedigree

• Get an individual's relatives

• Get the kinship chains between two individuals

Dataset transformation

• Extract a subcorpus

• Reduce to the core

• Reduce to the kernel

• Reduce to the maximal bicomponent

• Eliminate double entries

• Eliminate virtual individuals

• Eliminate unmarried children

• Eliminate tree subgraphs

• Redefine spouses

• Redefine parents

• Relationalize properties (transform into equivalence relations)

• Reduce to positive cluster values

• Random simulation

Partitions and statistics

• Partitioning a dataset

• Endogenous and exogenous partitions

• Status partition at a point of time

• Partition induced by a matrimonial census

• Extraction of a subcorpus

• Cluster regrouping

• Cluster expansion

• Binarization

• Cross-partitioning

• Statistics and diagrams

• Cumulative statistics

• Agnatic/uterine weight

• Agnatic/uterine net weight

• Genealogical completeness

• Differential density

• Component statistics

• Fratry distribution

• Cousin marriage statistics

• Consanguine relation statistics

• Intra-cluster relation statistics

• Cluster-affiliation statistics

• Relinking statistics

• Export partitions

• Partition codes

• Generation

The Kinship Relation Census

• General

• Matrimonial circuit census

• Matrimonial circuit census with redefined spouses

• Non-matrimonial circuit census

• Open kinship chain census

• Restriction to heterosexual relations

• Restriction to relations between married individuals

• Restriction to rings

• Restriction to minor rings

• Restriction to minimal rings

• Unilinear

• Filtered (by structure formula)

• Filtered (by property code)

• Aggregate

• Complex

• Restricted

• Mixed

• Connubial

• Alliance Parter List

• Alliance Network and Matrix

• Search by dimension limits

• Search by kinship schema

• Sibling mode

• Ring inclusion mode

• Symmetry type

• Partition induced by a matrimonial census

• Ring network decomposition

• Census reports (for details see below)

The Kinship Calculator

• Generalities

• Kinship relation analysis

• Canonic representation

• Reflection

• Rotation

• Composition

• Insertion

• Combination

• Combination matrix

• Permutation

• Variation

Outputs

• Datasets in readable file format

• Basic dataset informations

• Statistics and diagrams

• Partition files (pajek format)

• Sorted lists of individuals

• Census reports

• Census reports in text format

• Census reports in pajek format

• General census statistics

• Census by ring/relation types

• Census by couples

• Census in continuous list format

• Matrimonial network

• Matrimonial network frame

• Ring intersection network

• Decomposition protocol

• Matrimonial rings in network format

• Abstract matrimonial rings in network format

• Kinship relation analysis report

• Ring combination matrix

• Possible error protocol

• Virtual fieldnotes

• Information on Puck

Windows and components

• Opening window

• Corpus window

• Data window

• Export window

• Update window

• Fuse window

• Statistics window

• Count window

• Info window

• Simulation parameter window

• General options window

• Info options window

• Control Options Window

• List options window

• Transform options window

• Conversion options window

• Search options window

• Report options window

• Statistic options window

• Kinship calculator