[Babase] Rankdate Changes in Babase

Niki Learn nlearn at princeton.edu
Tue Mar 23 09:54:59 EDT 2010


So it sounds like we need different rules for males and females?  Females
remain as they are, no MCEs until maturedate, but males just cannot have
MCE's prior to age 4 (and Bozo was 5 in 1996 so he would then be in the
clear).  Btw, parts is a very funny name for that table.

 

From: babase-bounces at eeblistserv.Princeton.EDU
[mailto:babase-bounces at eeblistserv.Princeton.EDU] On Behalf Of Jeanne
Altmann
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 9:46 AM
To: The Baboon Database Project
Subject: RE: [Babase] Rankdate Changes in Babase

 

Males start being scored on mounts at age 4 as per monitoring guide.  Do we
filter out those records until their matdate? 

 

 

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From: babase-bounces at eeblistserv.Princeton.EDU
[mailto:babase-bounces at eeblistserv.Princeton.EDU] On Behalf Of Karl O. Pinc
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 5:20 PM
To: The Baboon Database Project
Subject: Re: [Babase] Rankdate Changes in Babase

 

Ok, so here's the problem:

 

Once upon a time it was only females that had rows in MATUREDATES.

We gave males maturity dates without updating the rules.

So, all the error messages say "female", and none of the checks take sex
into account.  Or at least those checks that are done when the MATUREDATES
table is updated.  On the PARTS table only the females are checked against
MATUREDATES.

 

So, a male can have a row entered in PARTS and be part of an MCE interaction
without having his maturity date checked but when it comes time to update
his maturity date the system does check MCE interactions and we get an
error.

 

We need a review of the maturity date rules vis males.

Or maybe a re-review and I need to double check the code

to make sure it corresponds to the written rules.   This

could just be a regular old bug and nothing nefarious regards our decision
to give males rows on MATUREDATES.

 

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