Hey Blue,
I was reading the posts on your problem
and I would probably tackle the problem the
same way. As an academic exercise, regardless
of whether the doctor finds it useful or not,
the first thing you'd need to do would be
to set ranges for the time schedules. Larger
ranges (Say 4am to 5am) would be less specific,
but tighter ranges (4:00am-4:05am) would probably
not gather as many time points as you would want
to gain an average.
If you want an easy way to do this, I would
probably set up a small PERL script
to write an interface file from form data.
I'd use a dropdown box to allow them to pick
the time ranges and have each range assigned
a numerical value that corresponds to the
line in the array that the data is stored.
(IE, line 1 is 4-4:30, line 2 is 4:30-5 etc. etc.)
The PERL script would need to parse the data
from the form, read the current data from the
file into an array. Dump the new data from your
form into the array, and rewrite the file.
You then would have a file that had all of
the data, categorized, by timepoint.
Last step is to create a script that reads the
array and averages values stored in the array.
Hope that helps.
- Hutch
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