[Babase] errors

Stephanie Combes babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Fri, 09 Jul 2004 17:38:52 -0400


Hi again everyone,

 (Susan - I'm copying you on this, but if you don't want all of this info 
in the future, let me know).


  I've looked through some of the errors (those that are listed on the 
first 40 pages or so).  Here's a list of ones that we need to discuss or 
that make me go "hmmm".  Email input is fine, or note whether certain ones 
need to be discussed on Wed.

1) Biograph statdate can't be less than mature dates.  This happens for JUN 
and NIN.  We are changing this, correct? i.e. statdate won't really be the 
reference, but something that also checks their status (alive or not).

2) Rule violation: mature dates must be between 3 and 7 years of birth. 
This is violated for ALEX who matures around 7.5ish.  Leave rule and ignore 
Alex?

3) Cycles must be sequential for each female and the first seq for each 
female must be 1.  While these are sensible rules, it's messing up on a lot 
of females.  All of the females I checked (and I checked most of them) have 
seq's (in cycles) from 1 to whatever BUT there are many situations where 
their order in cycles goes something like 2,3,4,1,5,6,etc.  The conversion 
program doesn't seem to like this.  Look at DAD or EST for examples, 
although there are others.

4)  cycle is not a conception and has no dates.  This is ok, right? 
Apparently these are "fillers"? - because in some cases these lines are 
totally blank in cycles.  Of course, I am a little confused as to why there 
are totally blank lines in there in the first place.  help.

5)biograph statdate can't be less than cycles tdate or ddate.  Similar to 
error 1 above.  again - status is being added as a reference correct?  of 
course, this particular kind of error did help me catch one female who 
apparently cycled after she died.  oops.

6) sexskins dates overlap with the following cycles M date.  Yes, does 
happen for LULU (see LUL seq 43).  help jeanne.  I'm thinking that the M 
date should have gone with the previous cycle? or is this rule not quite 
fine-tuned enough?

7) error: sexskins cid blah: maturedates.matured cannot be less than 
sexskins.date.  OK, in theory this error makes sense to me.  But, the 
female it's referring to matures well before the listed sexskin dates.  So 
karl, where is it looking?  what's maturedates.matured?

8) cid on cyles - key referenced from sexskins not found in cycles. scary 
message.  couldn't find source of error.  I'm still trying to figure out 
which female this is referring to.


Those are the biggies.  There are other errors that are very clear to me as 
to what happened. I will just need to poke through the data here and sniff 
out the truth.

Also, I not only now know how to gain remote access to Daphne's computer, 
it works (sorry about the accidental booting, Daphne!).  Daphne and I can't 
be using her computer at the same time.  So, if there are afternoons where 
you won't be on the computer, Daphne, drop me an email.  Otherwise, I will 
fix things in the evening or on the weekend.

Enough to ruminate over for the weekend??
steph