Database system support for multidimensional data analysis in environmental epidemiology

  • Authors:
  • Vera Kamp;Frank Wietek

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Oldenburg, FB Informatik, Oldenburg, Germany;University of Oldenburg, FB Informatik, Oldenburg, Germany

  • Venue:
  • IDEAS'97 Proceedings of the 1997 international conference on International database engineering and applications symposium
  • Year:
  • 1997

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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, multi-dimensional and statistical database systems have to be considered to develop an appropriate support architecture. In this paper; 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.