SPAN REFERENCE MANUAL DATA FILES MANIPULATION AND PROCESSING.

Abstract

The document is one of a series of volumes of the SPAN Reference Manual describing the SPAN system for data management and statistical analysis. The SPAN system provides an integrated file processing and multivariate analysis capability for problems involving large data matrices with large numbers of variables. The system is oriented to problems of social science in general and urban data analysis in particular. This volume describes the specification and application of SPAN capabilities for the processing of simple files and for report generation from simple files. Operations utilizing the following SPAN modules are discussed: BCD-to-STARS Conversion, STARSto-BCD Conversion, STARS Files Abstractor, STARS Files Collator, and STARS Files Summary-Sort. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 09, 1965
Accession Number
AD0613289

Entities

People

  • Vladimir V. Almendinger

Organizations

  • System Development Corporation

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computational Processes
  • Computing-Related Activities
  • Conversion
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Management
  • Data Mining
  • Data Science
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Knowledge Management
  • Multivariate Analysis
  • Social Sciences
  • Specifications
  • Statistical Analysis

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