[Babase] Sexual cycles before maturity
Jeanne Altmann
babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Mon, 17 Oct 2005 14:02:11 -0400
cycle numbers will still start with m-date, matdate. These odd small
swellings or odd bit of bleeding is not taken as a cycle; if it were, it
would be the matdate.
jeanne
At 05:41 PM 16/10/2005, you wrote:
>On 10/16/2005 02:05:06 PM, Catherine Markham wrote:
>>Hi Karl,
>>I just want to make sure I'm following this - we can enter mdates
>>before the maturity date (we'll get a warning when we do), but those
>>mdate won't show up in Cycstats or Repstats?
>
>Right.
>
> I think that's a new
>>protocol - in fact, I'm pretty sure that a few months ago we removed
>>mdates prior to mature dates from the system. No problem changing
>>entry procedures, but just want to make sure.
>
>Yes, it's new. We had decided to remove all the ones
>before the maturity date but seem to have changed our
>minds.
>
>The wierd question was what to do with seqeuence numbers,
>the Mdates before the maturity date won't have them.
>It was simpler the old way, but nobody wants to
>throw out data.
>
>>Catherine
>>
>>Karl O. Pinc wrote:
>>>Hi Y'all,
>>>I just got done reviewing things with Jeanne and here's
>>>the result. With a few extras thrown in just to
>>>keep Jeanne on her toes.
>>>There are no restrictions on swellings (SEXSKINS)
>>>before the maturity date. Any swellings larger
>>>than 1 before maturity get a warning. (Do we want warnings for
>>>anything before the maturity date? I'm inclined
>>>to think so.)
>>>There are warnings on MDates before the maturity
>>>date.
>>>DDates and TDates are not allowed before the maturity
>>>date. (As soon as the swelling goes above 1
>>>we code DDates and TDates and assign a maturity date.)
>>>CYCSTATS (and REPSTATS) do not contain any rows
>>>before the maturity date. (So any early MDates
>>>are ignored.)
>>>Karl <kop@meme.com>
>>>Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
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>>-- Catherine Markham
>>Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
>>Princeton University
>>Phone: (609) 258-6898
>>Fax: (609) 258-2712
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>Karl <kop@meme.com>
>Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
> -- Robert A. Heinlein
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