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JDB is package of commands for manipulating flat-ASCII databases from
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shell scripts. JDB is useful to process medium amounts of data (with
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very little data you'd do it by hand, with megabytes you might want a
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real database). JDB is very good at doing things like:
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1999-05-17 18:58:30 +02:00
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2003-12-15 21:18:33 +01:00
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- extracting measurements from experimental output
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- re-examining data to address different hypotheses
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- joining data from different experiments
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- eliminating/detecting outliers
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- computing statistics on data (mean, confidence intervals,
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correlations, histograms)
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- reformatting data for graphing programs
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