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Statistical correctness; Summarization correctness
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Summarizability is a property that assures the correctness of summary operations over On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) databases, which are akin to Statistical Databases [10]. Such databases are generally referred to as “summary databases,” and have a data model based on one or more measures defined over the cross product of dimensions. For example, a bookstore company may have multiple stores in many cities. Assume that there is a database containing the stores’ revenues for books sold per day over the last 3 years. In such a database, “revenue” is a measure, and “book,” “store,” “day” are the dimensions that define the cross product over which the measure revenue is defined. A dimension in a summary database is said to be summarizablerelative to a measure, if a summary statistic (sum, average, etc.) applied over the dimension produces correct results. For example, if summarization over all the books sold to...
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Shoshani, A. (2018). Summarizability. 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_380
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