[Babase] Issues with newcycles and newcycstats

Jeanne Altmann babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Wed, 16 Feb 2005 11:59:31 -0500


At 11:52 AM 2/16/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi Karl,
>
>Laurence and I wanted to give you a bit more information on the funky 
>things going on with the new cycles tables . . .
>
>It seems the heart of the trouble is a problem in newcycles -  it looks 
>like mdates were calculated only for resumes after a pregnancy AND 
>PUBERTY{?), as opposed to all cycles other than resumes OR FIRST PUBERTY 
>CYCLES.



>One of the ramifications in newcycstats arising from the incorrect 
>newcycles table is that there are gaps from ddate to next tdate if an 
>mdate is not present in newcycles.
>Perhaps the program is reading lack of an mdate as an indication of 
>pregnancy?
>
>If it would help in any way, Laurence has put together a correct cycles 
>table where she calculated mdates where applicable (all cycles but 
>resumes) and when possible (previous cycle has a ddate).   In addition, 
>she has corrected calculated mdate values in this table to adjust for any 
>mdates > tdates.  We had hoped that we could use this correct table to 
>replace your newcycles table and then rerun the newmakerep program and 
>generate a correct newcycstats.  Unfortunately, this didn't work at 
>all.  We realized the newmakerep program was working to recreate the 
>newcycles table, along with newcycstats and newrepstats.  Don't worry - we 
>didn't change anything on my computer in playing around with this.
>We just did everything with a copy of the files on Laurence's computer, so 
>all of the tables and programs on my computer are just as you originally 
>had them.
>
>Thanks for your help and let us know if there's anything we can do on our end.
>
>Catherine and Laurence
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