VARTAB — A System to create VARiable TABulations without any Knowledge in Programming

Abstract

Also in the field of medicine the computer is used increasingly for statistical evaluation of data. Unfortunately, the physician ▪— unlike the natural scientist — is, as a rule, not yet able to write himself the programs for the processing of his own data. This situation, on the one hand, frustrates the medical scientist, and, on the other hand, burdens the official programmers, who are expected to help the doctor.The steadily growing number of requests for programming support led us to develop a variable tabulation program (VARTAB) the rules of which are so simple that they can be learned in very short time also by physicians who have no programming knowledge at all. The VARTAB system consists of two parts: 1. a data-standardizing conversion program STAND and 2. the tabulation outprint program TABOUT. The concepts of both programs, the work to be done by the user and the potential and the restrictions of the system are discussed in detail.

Bitstring Processing for Statistical Evaluation of Large Volumes of Medical Data

“…An other form of bitstrings is used by THOlliE et a1. [7] in which the informations are stored also in a I-from-n code but without any invertion allowing only batch type evaluations,…”

“…are computer programs which create d"uring batch type processing variable tabulations [7]. However, the open catalogue of information problems [6] which is frequently raised d"uring the process of evaluation can be more satisfactorily solved, also in long-term cases, by entering the data in specially adapted information systems which can also be coordinated with each other.…”

SYS — Ein benutzerfreundliches System zur logischen Prüfung und Auswertung von Datenbeständen

“…andererseits die Personalsituation im EDV-Bereich berucksichtigt, wie sie an der Universitat derzeit besteht, bleibt als Ausweg nur das Bemuhen, maglichst benutzerfreundliche Anwendersysteme zu schaffen. Erste Entwicklungen mit dies em Ziel liegen bereits vorl erwahnt seien hier nur das System VARTAB (THOME, KOHLER U. WAGNER [6]), die Programme COUNT des Deutschen Rechenzentrums [3). SAP der IBM [5].…”