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Statistical Data Management

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Synonyms

Statistical database

Definition

A Statistical data management system is a data management system designed to explicitly handle so called “macro data,” i.e., data computed by different forms of summarization, including grouping and classification, as first class objects. In a statistical data management system, there are data manipulation operators that “slice and dice” the macro data. In many statistical databases, one of the goals is to hide the micro data (i.e., the raw data records from which the macro data are computed) from user queries.

Example

A classical example of a statistical database is a database created for social or economic surveys. STORM [4] is a classical statistical data management system.

Key Points

Research on statistical databases started in the 1970s and flourished in the 1980s, predating OLAP. A number of systems developed based on both relational and object-oriented data models. Many of these systems developed a graph-based representation of...

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  1. San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

    Amarnath Gupta

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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. San Diego Supercomputer Center, Univ. of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

    Amarnath Gupta

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Gupta, A. (2018). Statistical Data Management. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_1290

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