Data Definition for Statistical Summary Data or Appearances Can Be Deceiving.

Fredric C. Gey: Data Definition for Statistical Summary Data or Appearances Can Be Deceiving. SSDBM 1981: 3-18

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/ssdbm/Gey81,
  author    = {Fredric C. Gey},
  editor    = {Harry K. T. Wong},
  title     = {Data Definition for Statistical Summary Data or Appearances Can
               Be Deceiving},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the First LBL Workshop on Statistical Database
               Management, Melno Park, California, USA, December 2-4, 1981},
  publisher = {Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory},
  year      = {1981},
  pages     = {3-18},
  ee        = {db/conf/ssdbm/Gey81.html},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/ssdbm/81},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

Abstract

Numerous economists, analysts and bureaucrats now devote a large part of their time working with statistical summary data. Such data is produced from cross-tabulation or multi-level aggregation of unit-record or individual case data. When receiving summary data in machine-readable form the analyst is faced with finding a tool to manage it to his satisfaction, The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate, starting from an example, that standard Data Base Management Systems (DBMS) are inadequate to handle this task, and to suggest a few ways in which these deficiencies might be remedied.

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Referenced by

Frank Olken: How Baroque Should a Statistical Database Management System Be? SSDBM 1983: 212-219
Paul Chan, Susan J. Eggers, Fredric C. Gey, Harvard Holmes, Peter Kreps, John McCarthy, Deane Merrill, Frank Olken, Arie Shoshani, Harry K. T. Wong: Statistical Data Management Research at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. SSDBM 1983: 273-279
Don S. Batory: Index Coding: A Compression Technique for Large Statistical Databases. SSDBM 1983: 306-314