[Babase] CADET
Karl O. Pinc
babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Wed, 6 Oct 2004 10:26:24 -0500
On 2004.10.06 09:49 Daphne A. Onderdonk wrote:
> Karl O. Pinc wrote:
>> This does not help with the juveniles but I am checking mounts,
>> consortships, and ejactulations, as well as sexual cycle
>> tables for the correct sex.
>
> We did a clean-up of Mounts and Consorts data in February to try to
> catch some of these problems, but it would be good to keep a check in
> there to catch future mistakes. These are the clean-ups I did:
>
> Following discussion with JA and SCA, the following Mounts,
> Ejaculations, and Consorts were deleted from Interact and Parts:
>
> All MCEs where the actor was female
>
> All MCEs where the actee was male
>
> All MCEs where the female actee had not yet reached menarche
>
> <>All MCEs where the male actor was not yet 4 years old
>
>
> (This follows the criteria for recording MCEs in the monitoring
> guide.)
>
> In addition to the gender checks, do we want to have the
> age/maturation checks in there as well? I don't see why not, if
> those are the ground rules for recording MCEs. Is that feasible,
> Karl?
Yes. This makes sense to me. I would prefer to check matdate
(rankdate?) to check maturation throughout the system, and then put
age checks and so forth on matdate. Would this work?
What would I then check for males/females for MCE interactions?
We have maturedates, consortdates, rankdates, and dispersedates
to work with. IIRC Susan wants to add another one to the
database for males but I forget what that is and we haven't
done it for the initial cut of babase version 2.
Karl <kop@meme.com>
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