[Babase] maturedate and point samples error

Lacey Maryott lacey.maryott at duke.edu
Tue Jan 22 15:33:23 EST 2008


Hi Tabby,

    I can take a look at the samples and see when she was sampled as a 
FEM and not a JUV, and figure out if it is just the sample that needs to 
be deleted too, it isn't uncommon for the team to accidentally pick the 
wrong type of sample.

Lacey

Karl O. Pinc wrote:
>
> On 01/22/2008 01:34:15 PM, kfenn wrote:
>> Hi Karl,
>>
>> For reasons I cannot explain, the same files that would not upload a 
>> week ago are now uploading into biograph.
>>
>> I guess the sacrificial chickens worked...?
>
> ?
>
>>
>> So far I have (mostly) updated BIOGRAPH and CENSUS in 
>> babase_test...with a few glitchy things that I'm ironing out though 
>> the protocol, I think.
>> But here is an error I haven't seen before and don't understand.  I 
>> tried to upload 3 new females to the MATUREDATES  table.  I got
>>
>> ERROR: RWA: MATUREDATES.Matured more than 1 year after the date of a 
>> female point sample
>>
>> I don't understand why we care if the maturedate later than 1 year 
>> after a point sample.  As long as the female is under observation as 
>> part of the census, why do the point samples matter?
>
> A female should not be sampled as an adult female when they're
> a juvenile.  The female samples all have information about
> offspring, and juveniles should not have offspring.
> There is however a year of slop having something to do with
> Jeanne and Susan's official determination v.s. that of
> the field workers that do the sampling.
>
> Either the sampling is wrong (has the wrong female, etc.),
> or the maturity date is wrong, or the people in the field
> goofed.
>
> Or, I made a mistake when I put the rule in and you're getting this
> message when you shouldn't.  Seems to me this is a somewhat recent
> check.  You might want to look at the data to be sure that what
> it's telling you is really true.
>
> Karl <kop at meme.com>
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Lacey Maryott
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