[Babase] CYCSTATS documentation (again)
Catherine Markham
amarkham at princeton.edu
Tue Jun 13 09:11:49 EDT 2006
How about we talk about this later today? I don't want to take up too
much of your time, but the logic still isn't clicking completely (making
it hard to search for table errors).
Thanks,
Catherine
Karl O. Pinc wrote:
>
> On 06/12/2006 12:22:00 PM, Catherine Markham wrote:
>
>> Hi Karl,
>>
>> I'm a bit confused by the documentation for CYCSTATS regarding Cpids
>> and Cpide. Sorry - I know we've been through this before and it made
>> sense to me at one point. When just trying to re-read it, though, I
>> can't follow what is going on.
>
>
> Suppose the date is a Tdate, to which cycle/Tdate does the date belong?
> No problem, it belongs with the Tdate. But, suppose the date is a date
> between an Ddate and a Mdate. Which cycle/sexual cycle event does
> the date go with? It goes with both the Ddate and the Mdate, and so
> with two different cycles. The cpids is the sexual cycle event start
> id, the cpid of the Ddate. The cpide is the sexual cycle event end
> date, the cpid of the Mdate. You choose which is more interesting
> when you write the query.
>
> (Actually in the case of the Tdate, it could still have a start and
> end that differ -- that cover the interval between the Tdate and
> the next Ddate. I'd guess so, for consistency with all the other
> rows, but I'd have to re-read the docs.)
>
> Karl <kop at meme.com>
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