[Babase] New Ranker login and misused groomings

Jun Yang junyang at gmail.com
Wed Apr 9 17:29:58 EDT 2008


I see.  That should be a very simple fix. Currently, the query that
retrieves the interactions doesn't filter out any interactions at all.
We just need to put in the appropriate filters. The questions is how
flexible we should make it though:

* We can hard-code the filter to count agonistic interactions only---I
assume the condition would be CLASS = 'A'? Or should it be ACT='AS' OR
ACT='DS' OR ACT='OS'?

* We can let user pick which subset of ACTs to include in counting
(e.g., AS+DS, AS alone, AS+DS+OS, etc.). This makes the whole thing a
bit messier but certainly would be possible.

What do you guys think?

--- Jun Y.

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 10:29 AM, kfenn <kfenn at princeton.edu> wrote:
> Lacey Maryott wrote:
>
> > Tabby,
> >
> > At first, Susan thought it odd that that could possibly explain why we
> were seeing that happen with males, but we are pretty sure it was occuring
> mostly in subadult and juvenile males who do occasionally groom each other.
> > Lacey
> >
> > kfenn wrote:
> >
> > >  I investigated this further....the source of the extra data can be
> explained if one adds the grooming data to the agonistic interactions.
> > >
> > >
> >
>  One further note on the comments above:  I checked and the same pattern
> also holds for the males...groomings are added to the interaction matrix.  I
> ran Omo's ALM Dec 06 and Nyayo's Jan 06.  The added interaction, ODE > AFR,
> is accounted for the by grooming data (in Dec06).  SAT > TAL and COS > TAL
> are accounted for by the grooming data in Jan 06.
>
>  Earlier today I thought Jun had fixed this for the males but not for the
> females....but I just happened to run a matrix with no extra grooming data.
> So the bottom line seems to be that new Ranker incorrectly adds grooming
> data to both the male and female agonism matrices.
>
>  Tabby
>
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