[Babase] Vumbi consort data in interact and parts
Susan Alberts
babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Mon, 23 Feb 2004 10:50:36 -0500
Thanks Daphne,
Yes that rule must have changed or gotten put in place around the
time I started working on the project so I am fuzzy on the details.
My view is that the Consortships should definitely be deleted if the
male is less than 4, as we use first consortship as a maturational
marker and having false "C"s in the records just confuses things. I
didn't know there were actually two of these -- can you just tell me
who so that I can make sure it hasn't been taking as a real C date?
I'm sure I would have picked up on it but let's be careful anyway.
My inclination would be to also remove the M's where males were not
yet 4 or females not yet reached menarche especially as they are
currently idiosyncratic -- i.e. only collected for a limited time
period and not any longer. Let's leave it that we will delete these
unless Jeanne thinks otherwise --
And yes, do go ahead and delete the m-m and f-f MCEs.
Thanks again for your careful tending of the data.
Susan
>Hello all,
>
>This got me doing more querying... I checked Interact and Parts for
>MCEs where
>the females hadn't reached menarche, or the males were not yet 4 years old.
>There are only 10 where the female has not reached menarche - all Ms. All are
>from the late 70s and early 80s. Should these be deleted?
>
>There are lots more where the male is not yet 4 years old (421 to be exact).
>They are mostly from the late 70s and early 80s, with only a handful from the
>late 80s and early 90s. Did the rule about recording only males over 4 and
>females that have reached menarche change somewhere along the way? Only 2 of
>these are consorts (the one Karen found and one other). Should
>these be deleted?
>
>Haven't heard back about deleting the male-male or female-female MCEs - if I
>don't hear otherwise, I'll go ahead and delete these.
>
>Daphne
>
>Karen Drysdale wrote:
>
>> Hello Babase Mailing List,
>>
>> Dear Daphne,
>>
>> We have a record of VUM c HEI on the 29/3/87. Vum was only 3.5
>>yrs of age at
>> this date. This data point should not have been collected and
>>Susan wants it
>> deleted. Any comments?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Karen Drysdale
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