[Babase] errors
Stephanie Combes
babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Fri, 09 Jul 2004 17:38:52 -0400
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).
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?
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.
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.
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.
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?
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?
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