[Babase] CYCSTATS documentation revision?

Catherine Markham amarkham at princeton.edu
Tue Jun 27 15:55:27 EDT 2006


Hi,

I'd like to suggest another possible revision to the documentation, 
particularly for the text on CYCSTATS.  One of the cautions reads:

"Females may become turgesent (have a Tdate) on the day they are in 
menses (Mdate).  As CYCSTATS has a 1 day resolution and, essentially, 
these females are in menses for less than a day, when this happens 
CYCSTATS will not show any dates in menses (State is M) for these cycles 
even though the cycles has an Mdate row in CYCPOINTS.

Similarly, when there are less than 6 days between an Mdate and the 
following Ddate a cycle will have no days in the swelling-follicular 
state (State is S)."

I'd specify that the second scenario places females in State = M for the 
duration of Mdate to the day before Ddate (inclusive of endpoints).  As 
it is described now, it took me a few reads to understand what state I 
should expect.

Catherine


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