The description of statistical tables: a problem in data documentation.
| dc.contributor.author | Soergel, Dagobert | |
| dc.contributor.author | Furmaniak, Karl | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2007-05-15T19:50:37Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2007-05-15T19:50:37Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1970 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Reference to and direct storage of primary data is of growing importance. This explains the interest in the description of statistical tables. The brute-force approach to give each stratifier (that is, the list of all row captions or the list of all column captions) in full has its economical limits. A method is described which makes the description of a large number of large tables economically feasible. The basic idea is to replace the full listing of a stratifier (e.g. US counties) by a reference to a "prefabricated" stratifier available in a classification scheme (e.g. US geographical division) taking into account the hierarchical structure of such a scheme. Modification of prefabricated stratifiers is also possible in order to adapt to small variations occurring in actual tables. The method has also applications in thesaurus building. | en |
| dc.format.extent | 105342 bytes | |
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| dc.identifier.citation | Sorgel, Dagobert; Furmaniak, Karl. The description of statistical tables: a problem in data documentation. American Society for Information Science. Proceedings. 1970; 7: 331-336. | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1903/4372 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | College of Information Studies | en_us |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | Information Studies | en_us |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | Digital Repository at the University of Maryland | en_us |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | University of Maryland (College Park, Md.) | en_us |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | American Society for Information Science. | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | 7 | en |
| dc.title | The description of statistical tables: a problem in data documentation. | en |
| dc.type | Article | en |