[Babase] CADET
Susan Alberts
babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Wed, 6 Oct 2004 18:42:11 +0300
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>>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?
Yes in principle but in fact, in the field we use 4 years of age for
males -- that is we begin recording mounts at 4 yrs. So this will
need to be the criterion for babase too I think, right?
For females I believe it would be maturedates that we would use.
The other thing that I think we need to add for males is "ranked by"
and "matured by" (and perhaps dispersed by, although the first two
are by far the most important) columns or a new table. This is
because when a male enters the study population already as an adult
he never gets a matured or ranked date, creating the contradictory
situation that a male who appears to have never matured is
functioning as an adult male. This has been a constant source of
confusion that we've had to work around.
S
>
>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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