[Babase] CYCSTATS documentation (again)

Catherine Markham amarkham at princeton.edu
Tue Jun 13 09:11:49 EDT 2006


How about we talk about this later today?  I don't want to take up too 
much of your time, but the logic still isn't clicking completely (making 
it hard to search for table errors).

Thanks,
Catherine


Karl O. Pinc wrote:
> 
> On 06/12/2006 12:22:00 PM, Catherine Markham wrote:
> 
>> Hi Karl,
>>
>> I'm a bit confused by the documentation for CYCSTATS regarding Cpids  
>> and Cpide.  Sorry - I know we've been through this before and it made  
>> sense to me at one point.  When just trying to re-read it, though, I  
>> can't follow what is going on.
> 
> 
> Suppose the date is a Tdate, to which cycle/Tdate does the date belong?
> No problem, it belongs with the Tdate.  But, suppose the date is a date
> between an Ddate and a Mdate.  Which cycle/sexual cycle event does
> the date go with?  It goes with both the Ddate and the Mdate, and so
> with two different cycles.  The cpids is the sexual cycle event start
> id, the cpid of the Ddate.  The cpide is the sexual cycle event end
> date, the cpid of the Mdate.  You choose which is more interesting
> when you write the query.
> 
> (Actually in the case of the Tdate, it could still have a start and
> end that differ -- that cover the interval between the Tdate and
> the next Ddate.  I'd guess so, for consistency with all the other
> rows, but I'd have to re-read the docs.)
> 
> Karl <kop at meme.com>
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