[Babase] errors
Jeanne Altmann
babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Mon, 12 Jul 2004 10:06:07 -0400
Thanks Steph,
just a few notes at this point:
At 05:38 PM 7/9/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi again everyone,
>
>(Susan - I'm copying you on this, but if you don't want all of this info
>in the future, let me know).
>
>
> I've looked through some of the errors (those that are listed on the
> first 40 pages or so). Here's a list of ones that we need to discuss or
> that make me go "hmmm". Email input is fine, or note whether certain
> ones need to be discussed on Wed.
>
>1) Biograph statdate can't be less than mature dates. This happens for
>JUN and NIN. We are changing this, correct? i.e. statdate won't really be
>the reference, but something that also checks their status (alive or not).
RIGHT, THAT WAS AGREED ON LAST WEEK
>2) Rule violation: mature dates must be between 3 and 7 years of birth.
>This is violated for ALEX who matures around 7.5ish. Leave rule and
>ignore Alex?
SUSAN, WHAT DO YOU THINK? ALEX IS A TOTAL OUTLIER, AND WE DON'T HAVE A
GOOD BIRTHDATE FOR HIM AS HE WAS A JUVIE IMMIGRANT. COULD HE HAVE BEEN SO
MUCH YOUNGER THAN WE HAVE RECORDED? DO WE WANT TO UP THIS TO
7.5? REMEMBER, WHATEVER AGE WE USE, THE PROGRAM WILL HOLD US TO IT, WE
CAN'T DO A 'BYPASS', RIGHT?
>3) Cycles must be sequential for each female and the first seq for each
>female must be 1. While these are sensible rules, it's messing up on a
>lot of females. All of the females I checked (and I checked most of them)
>have seq's (in cycles) from 1 to whatever BUT there are many situations
>where their order in cycles goes something like 2,3,4,1,5,6,etc. The
>conversion program doesn't seem to like this. Look at DAD or EST for
>examples, although there are others.
KARL, WHAT IS THIS ABOUT?
>4) cycle is not a conception and has no dates. This is ok, right?
>Apparently these are "fillers"? - because in some cases these lines are
>totally blank in cycles. Of course, I am a little confused as to why
>there are totally blank lines in there in the first place. help.
WE NEED FOR INFO ON THIS
>5)biograph statdate can't be less than cycles tdate or ddate. Similar to
>error 1 above. again - status is being added as a reference correct? of
>course, this particular kind of error did help me catch one female who
>apparently cycled after she died. oops.
RIGHT
>6) sexskins dates overlap with the following cycles M date. Yes, does
>happen for LULU (see LUL seq 43). help jeanne. I'm thinking that the M
>date should have gone with the previous cycle? or is this rule not quite
>fine-tuned enough?
I'M NOT CLEAR ON THIS
>7) error: sexskins cid blah: maturedates.matured cannot be less than
>sexskins.date. OK, in theory this error makes sense to me. But, the
>female it's referring to matures well before the listed sexskin dates. So
>karl, where is it looking? what's maturedates.matured?
KARL?
>8) cid on cyles - key referenced from sexskins not found in cycles. scary
>message. couldn't find source of error. I'm still trying to figure out
>which female this is referring to.
>
>
>Those are the biggies. There are other errors that are very clear to me
>as to what happened. I will just need to poke through the data here and
>sniff out the truth.
>
>Also, I not only now know how to gain remote access to Daphne's computer,
>it works (sorry about the accidental booting, Daphne!). Daphne and I
>can't be using her computer at the same time. So, if there are afternoons
>where you won't be on the computer, Daphne, drop me an email. Otherwise,
>I will fix things in the evening or on the weekend.
>
>Enough to ruminate over for the weekend??
>steph
>
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