[Babase] REPSTATS and CYCGAPS

Catherine Markham amarkham at princeton.edu
Mon Jun 12 20:02:52 EDT 2006


I definitely don't understand then - why would it be different for two 
females in the same study group?

Thanks,
Catherine

Karl O. Pinc wrote:
> 
> On 06/12/2006 01:36:58 PM, Catherine Markham wrote:
>> Hi Karl,
>>
>> Sorry to be bombarding you with emails, but here's another question for
>> you.  I can't quite put my finger on what's going - in part, I think, 
>> because I'm not entirely sure what you ended up doing with CYCGAPS.
>>
>> In proofing REPSTATS, I noticed something weird standing out with 
>> VOR's earliest records.  Seems this is in part do to a data entry 
>> mistake (I'll work to correct that), but also because of a gap in 
>> monitoring (obviously not a mistake in and of itself, but did lead me 
>> to investigate a bit more).
>>
>> Could you check the gaps for VOR and also PRO (I randomly chose her as 
>> another female in the same study group)?  Both VOR and PRO seem to 
>> have been under the same observation scheme, but VOR has a CYCGAPS 
>> rows with CYCGAPS.code = E on 1992-02-22 and PRO has a CYCGAPS rows 
>> with CYCGAPS.code = E on 1992-02-05.  Both of these dates correspond 
>> to each female's respective conception dates that month.  I can't 
>> figure out how you determined they were end of observation dates, 
>> though.  Could you fill me in (or remind me if we've been over this 
>> already) how these markers were identified?
> 
> Jeanne sent a list of groups and observation dates.  I just used those.
> 
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