An Analytic Approach to Statistical Databases

Summary: Replaces extensional attribute storage with analytic representations: distributions summarized by canonical coefficients. These coefficients support statistical queries, updates, and distributed query decomposition without accessing raw data. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 7796
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1983
Pagerank: 0.00011778053
Overall Rank: 1,183 | 91.89%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Ezio Lefons (Institute of Information Sciences)
2. Alberto Silvestri (Institute of Computer Science)
3. Filippo Tangorra (Institute of Information Sciences)

BibTeX Citation

@article{lefons_vldb83,
        title = {{An Analytic Approach to Statistical Databases}},
        author = {Lefons, Ezio and Silvestri, Alberto and Tangorra, Filippo},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '83},
        year = {1983}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
70	Privacy-Preserving Data Mining	2000	SIGMOD	0.0003804755
123	Revealing Information while Preserving Privacy	2003	PODS	0.00031082693
222	Adaptive Selectivity Estimation Using Query Feedback	1994	SIGMOD	0.00024193708
1,172	An Instant and Accurate Size Estimation Method for Joins and Selection in a Retrieval-Intensive Environment	1993	SIGMOD	0.00011825923

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank

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