Database system support for multidimensional data analysis in environmental epidemiology

Author

Kamp, Vera ; Wietek, Frank

Author_Institution

Fachbereich Inf., Oldenburg Univ., Germany

fYear

1997

fDate

25-27 Aug 1997

Firstpage

180

Lastpage

188

Abstract

The project CARLOS (Cancer Registry Lower-Saxony) aims at novel techniques for analysing cancer clusters using advanced database technology to support multidimensional analysis of spatio-temporal related health data. This requires very advanced support capabilities which can not be provided by existing technology. Therefore, new approaches in the fields of spatio-temporal, multidimensional and statistical database systems have to be considered to develop an appropriate support architecture. We present our experiences and ideas gained in implementing a prototype. Based on these facts, we describe our approach to dynamically create statistical objects over predicate based aggregates in the course of epidemiological data analysis

Keywords

health care; medical information systems; statistical analysis; temporal databases; visual databases; Cancer Registry Lower-Saxony; advanced database technology; advanced support capabilities; cancer cluster analysis; database system support; environmental epidemiology; epidemiological data analysis; multidimensional data analysis; predicate based aggregates; project CARLOS; spatio-temporal related health data; statistical database systems; statistical objects; Aggregates; Cancer; Data analysis; Database systems; Diseases; Multidimensional systems; Pollution measurement; Prototypes; Spatial databases; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Database Engineering and Applications Symposium, 1997. IDEAS '97. Proceedings., International

Conference_Location

Montreal, Que.

ISSN

1098-8068

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8114-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IDEAS.1997.625674

Filename

625674