[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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