[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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