[Babase] Matured Dates after Statdate
Susan Alberts
alberts at duke.edu
Mon Nov 20 12:19:30 EST 2006
>
> The individuals I am dealing with appear to have artificially
> assigned matured date.
How can you tell? Can you give me some examples?
> Observations on some groups (like Protons) seem to have been
> discontinued after a certain period.
Observations were discontinued on a regular basis, but we continued
to see Proton's group and record information about its members for
many years after this.
Susan
> I have found no evidence that the individuals with errors were seen
> after the last statdate.
>
> How would you like to proceed given this? I understand your point
> about the artificial statdates, but that doesn't seem to be the
> case here.
>
>
> Tabby
>
> Susan Alberts wrote:
>> I think that if we have a matured date that occurs after the
>> statdate, the obvious inference is that the statdate is incorrect.
>> I think we need to change the statdate. I am pretty sure that we
>> made this decision, but I think it probably got lost in the shuffle.
>>
>> Specifically, I recall that we realized that a lot of animals in
>> proton's have an artificial statdate -- that in many cases we know
>> they were around after the statdate because we saw them and have
>> info on them. Eventually, in principle, we want to update all
>> these statdates to reflect reality. In principle, we only need to
>> do it now for the ones that are causing conversion errors.
>>
>> So, make the statdate equal to the maturedate for now.
>>
>> Susan
>>
>> On Nov 13, 2006, at 7:48 PM, Leah Gerber wrote:
>>
>>> Karl and Susan,
>>>
>>> I just wanted to check to see if we had made a final decision on
>>> whether matured "by" dates could be after statdates. For
>>> dispersed dates this is allowed but I thought we had decided it
>>> would not be allowed for matured dates. Tabby has a couple of
>>> outstanding conversion errors for which this occurs. The options
>>> are:
>>>
>>> 1. allow this to occur (like for dispersed dates)
>>> 2. change the date to the statdate
>>> 3. delete the date
>>>
>>> I think the answer needs to be explicitly stated in the
>>> documentation.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Leah
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>> Phone 919-660-7272, Fax 919-660-7293. alberts at duke.edu
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