Economic database systems: Further reflections on the state of the art

Journal of Economic and Social Measurement

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 43-85

  Renfro, Charles G ^a  

^a Alphamerics Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer; Database; DBMS; Economic; Longitudinal; Relational; Statistics; Temporal; Time series

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347108816     PISSN: 07479662     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/jem-1997-23103     Document Type: Article

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