[Babase] maturedate and point samples error RWA

Lacey Maryott lacey.maryott at duke.edu
Tue Jan 22 15:35:14 EST 2008


Well, I found it, and its clearly an error in samples... there is one 
'F' sample for her, amid 141 'J' samples.  I will go ahead and just 
delete this sample, as is our protocol, since different information is 
collected for each type.

Lacey

Karl O. Pinc wrote:
>
> On 01/22/2008 01:34:15 PM, kfenn wrote:
>> Hi Karl,
>>
>> For reasons I cannot explain, the same files that would not upload a 
>> week ago are now uploading into biograph.
>>
>> I guess the sacrificial chickens worked...?
>
> ?
>
>>
>> So far I have (mostly) updated BIOGRAPH and CENSUS in 
>> babase_test...with a few glitchy things that I'm ironing out though 
>> the protocol, I think.
>> But here is an error I haven't seen before and don't understand.  I 
>> tried to upload 3 new females to the MATUREDATES  table.  I got
>>
>> ERROR: RWA: MATUREDATES.Matured more than 1 year after the date of a 
>> female point sample
>>
>> I don't understand why we care if the maturedate later than 1 year 
>> after a point sample.  As long as the female is under observation as 
>> part of the census, why do the point samples matter?
>
> A female should not be sampled as an adult female when they're
> a juvenile.  The female samples all have information about
> offspring, and juveniles should not have offspring.
> There is however a year of slop having something to do with
> Jeanne and Susan's official determination v.s. that of
> the field workers that do the sampling.
>
> Either the sampling is wrong (has the wrong female, etc.),
> or the maturity date is wrong, or the people in the field
> goofed.
>
> Or, I made a mistake when I put the rule in and you're getting this
> message when you shouldn't.  Seems to me this is a somewhat recent
> check.  You might want to look at the data to be sure that what
> it's telling you is really true.
>
> Karl <kop at meme.com>
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Lacey Maryott
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