[Babase] More PsionLoad Questions
Karl O. Pinc
kop at meme.com
Mon Jun 18 13:02:45 EDT 2007
On 06/18/2007 10:46:23 AM, Lacey Maryott wrote:
> Hey Karl,
> While uploading yesterday, Leah and I came up with a new list of
> questions, comments, concerns about Psion load. See below.
> 7. In file 060921P1 there was a row that just said F2..., then the
> next 2 rows were OS..., but the error which was picked up on this was
> "Kidsuckle must be S,N, etc". We thought it odd that it didn't pick
> up on the missing infant position before jumping to the suckle code.
You're talking about field 4 of the female point sample line, right?
It's the database doing the checking and it doesn't always do it
in the order in which the columns are listed in the database
docs. Sometimes there's a good reason for this and sometimes
not. If there's something that would be better for you to check
one way rather than the other let me know and I can see about
switching around the checks.
Also note:
The documentation I've got:
https://papio.biology.duke.edu/babasewiki/PsionFormat
says that you don't have to have a an activity and posture
code to have a kidcontact and kidsuckle code. This seems
wierd. Could you please check with a handy scientist?
I don't think the database will allow having no activity
and no posture and still having kidcontact and kidsuckle
so maybe that takes care of the problem -- although maybe
there's still a problem on the data collection side.
> Also, is there a code for "UNK" if we have an F2 row but no
> information about the infant?
No. What happens is that there is no FPOINTS row. This is
then reported as an error, but only when we run the
warning/error checker that we're not currently running.
(The whole "warning" thing that's not really happening
now in Babase 2.0.)
In other words, if it's a female point sample row then
it's supposed to have all the female data.
Karl <kop at meme.com>
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