[Babase] REPSTATS says cycling but there are no CYCSTATS
Catherine Markham
amarkham at princeton.edu
Thu Jun 22 15:41:39 EDT 2006
Karl,
I'm not sure I'm following the second qualifying part of the statement.
Is this saying the same thing:
... This can only occur for matured females in cases when observation
ceases before a sexual cycle transition event is observed.
If so, I'd leave the final sentence to say "warning" instead of "error".
If I'm following the logic correctly, I don't think this is
necessarily a data error but rather just a funky combination of
monitoring gaps and cycle data.
As for this happening just with JUH at the moment, don't we stand a
chance of getting more similar cases when we add additional estimated
maturity dates for females?
Finally, no need to update the database for me right now. I won't be
using it until you're ready for me to look at CYCSTATS anyway. Even
then, I think I can handle using the older version with the proofing if
it makes things easier for you.
Catherine
Karl O. Pinc wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just added the following to the documentation for CYCSTATS:
>
> ------------<snip>------------
> Caution
>
> REPSTATS may show a female to be cycling even when there are no rows in
> CYCSTATS for the dates in question. This occurs when there are no
> CYCPOINTS during a period of observation. This can only occur for
> females without a MATUREDATES.Mstatus of O when observation ceases
> before the first observed sexual cycle transition event.
>
> The system will issue a warning when REPSTATS indicates a female is
> cycling but there is no row in CYCSTATS for the day in question.
> ------------<snip>------------
>
> I expect that when this occurs there is a data error.
> (Should I say error instead of warning?)
>
> Note that this is happening with JUH, who is the
> only case. (Catherine,
> I have not updated the db with the last changes
> you uploaded because I've gotten familiar with the
> data as-is, warts and all. I can update it
> after finishing with CYCPOINTS problems, unless
> we need it sooner.)
>
> Any comments?
>
>
> Karl <kop at meme.com>
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