TRACE III(ID:4897/tra004)

TRACE III interpretive programming language to enable inductive data analysis

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  • Cooperband, A. S., and Moore, W. H., Jr., "A comparison of selected characteristics of TRACE and TDMS data bases", System Development Corporation document TM(L)-3356, 20 January 1967 view details
  • Moore, W. H., Jr., and Cooperband, A. S., "A description of the TRACE-III interpreter", Center for Computer-based Behavioral Studies document CCBS-TM(L)-1, 31 December 1969 view details
  • Cooperband, A. S., "Basic TRACE-III", Center for Computer-based Behavioral Studies document CCBS-TM-6, 31 July 1970 view details
  • Cooperband, Alvin S.; Moore, Jr., William H.; Meeker, Robert J.; Shure, Gerald H.; "TRACE—III: An implicit programming system for inductive data analysis" view details Abstract: A previous on-line data analysis system has been generalized and extended on a Digital Equipment PDP-10 computer into an implicit programming system utilizing a special-purpose programming language aimed at behavioral scientists with little or no data processing background who desire to perform special-purpose data analyses or examine their data from an inductive as well as a deductive stance. Central to this new system is a comprehensive data management subsystem that retrieves data from a data base according to implicit associations among data units; that updates the data base with the results of data manipulations in a way that preserves associations among existing data units and establishes such associations with new data units; and that relieves the user of all responsibility for database and file management.

          in [ACM] Proceedings of the 1971 ACM Annual Conference view details