[Babase] REPSTATS and CYCGAPS

Karl O. Pinc kop at meme.com
Mon Jun 12 15:55:12 EDT 2006


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.

Karl <kop at meme.com>
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