Problems associated with defining normal forms of relational tables relevant to statistical processing are discussed. The concepts of derived identifier, class identifier, derived class-counts, count domains, compact domains, and uniform domains for ...
The concept of multidimensional transformation of statistical databases is described. A given set of statistical output may be compatible with more than one statistical database. A transformed database D' is a database which (1) differs from the ...
This paper extends Codd's relational view to represent statistical data and to achieve the efficient analysis of statistical data. It discusses why the relational calculus has not been popular with statisticians. A new view called a statistical ...
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