[Babase] Rankdate Changes in Babase
Lacey Maryott Roerish
lroerish4 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 23 10:04:12 EDT 2010
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Niki Learn <nlearn at princeton.edu> wrote:
> So it sounds like we need different rules for males and females? Females
> remain as they are, no MCEs until maturedate, but males just cannot have
> MCE’s prior to age 4 (and Bozo was 5 in 1996 so he would then be in the
> clear). Btw, parts is a very funny name for that table…
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>
Parts is a perfect name for the table which contains parts of an
interaction. It is also a very short, easy to remember/type name, so I love
it.
L
> *From:* babase-bounces at eeblistserv.Princeton.EDU [mailto:
> babase-bounces at eeblistserv.Princeton.EDU] *On Behalf Of *Jeanne Altmann
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 23, 2010 9:46 AM
>
> *To:* The Baboon Database Project
> *Subject:* RE: [Babase] Rankdate Changes in Babase
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> Males start being scored on mounts at age 4 as per monitoring guide. Do we
> filter out those records until their matdate?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: babase-bounces at eeblistserv.Princeton.EDU [mailto:
> babase-bounces at eeblistserv.Princeton.EDU] On Behalf Of Karl O. Pinc
> Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 5:20 PM
> To: The Baboon Database Project
> Subject: Re: [Babase] Rankdate Changes in Babase
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>
> Ok, so here's the problem:
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> Once upon a time it was only females that had rows in MATUREDATES.
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> We gave males maturity dates without updating the rules.
>
> So, all the error messages say "female", and none of the checks take sex
> into account. Or at least those checks that are done when the MATUREDATES
> table is updated. On the PARTS table only the females are checked against
> MATUREDATES.
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> So, a male can have a row entered in PARTS and be part of an MCE
> interaction without having his maturity date checked but when it comes time
> to update his maturity date the system does check MCE interactions and we
> get an error.
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> We need a review of the maturity date rules vis males.
>
> Or maybe a re-review and I need to double check the code
>
> to make sure it corresponds to the written rules. This
>
> could just be a regular old bug and nothing nefarious regards our decision
> to give males rows on MATUREDATES.
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Lacey K. Maryott Roerish
Alberts Lab
Department of Biology
Duke University
ph: 919-660-7306
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Lacey.Maryott at duke.edu
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