[Babase] adult female ranks in 1970's - TO DO LIST (not urgent)
Susan Alberts
alberts at duke.edu
Sat May 12 15:21:53 EDT 2007
Dear Lacey and Tabby,
As Jeanne and Lacey know I have spent some time in the past week
reconstructing adult female ranks in Hook's group in the 1970's, and
also going back over the Alto's rankings for 1971-1980 that Jeanne
did and Stephanie tabulated.
None of this is urgent but I don't want it to fall off our to do
list, so I've made notes here about what needs to be done. I have
already talked to Lacey about this and my main concern at this point
is that it stays on our radar screens and to do lists long enough to
make sure it happens.
1. Alto's ranks 1971-1980. Jeanne agreed that these ranks should be
entered into babase, in the same way that the 1981-1982 files should
that I forwarded to Tabby and Lacey this week (that JA and Catherine
originally compiled). There are a few minor errors in these that
Lacey is going to fix and then they will be ready to enter into an
excel file for upload to babase, except for one question ....
2. We need to find out from Jeanne how to interpret gaps in the
tabulated sheets -- does a gap in dates mean no change in rank, or no
data? For instance, there are rankings for Jan - May 1975 and then
for Jun - Dec 1976. Are there no data, or did nothing change from May
1975 to June 1976? (This is plausible based on relative ranks but we
want to double check that these are meant to reflect continuous
periods of time).
3. The ranks data for Hook's in the 1970's is more spotty. Jeanne and
I decided that probably we will NOT try to do month-by-month rankings
for females in Hook's prior to January 1981 because the data are too
sparse. However, we think that we CAN extract from these data birth
and/or conception ranks for most or all of the PIDs that occurred in
these years. We thought that it would be good to make a new babase
table that contains only birth or conception ranks (or both) for the
affected kids. We should talk to Karl about the design issues here.
4. Lacey will photocopy and send to Princeton the tabulated rankings
that I did for Hook's Group 1976-1980. These are based largely on
previous compilations by JA and other documents in the Hook's early
notebooks. We should preserve these but not interpret them as monthly
rankings.
5. The file that Catherine compiled from JA's instructions, which
covers both groups 1 and 2 for Jan 1981 through Nov 1982, needs to be
uploaded into babase, as I indicated in an email earlier this week.
However, I think there might be ranks errors for female ETA in Hook's
group in this period. I have asked Lacey to check Eta's relative rank
in 1981 through 1983, and I have asked Jeanne to send me matrices for
that time period, which will allow us to correct Eta's position (I
think). The uploading of these files should not take place until
after the ranks are corrected.
By separate email (not to babase) I will send e-copies of the excel
sheets that I just compiled for Scott and for Marie providing birth
ranks (for Scott) and conception ranks (for Marie) for some of these
animals.
Thanks,
Susan
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Susan Alberts, Dept. Biology, Duke University, Durham NC 27708. Phone
919-660-7272, Fax 919-660-7293. alberts at duke.edu
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