Maxdata: A Time Series Database System

Overview

The MAXDATA handbook gives a detailed introduction to the time series database system MAXDATA. This software product offers both specialists and inexperi- enced or occasional users a simple and convenient way to handle voluminous numerical databases on a personal computer. MAXDATA meets very conveniently the principal demands of ambitious and data processing users with respect to a modern database management and analysis system: database creation, research, management, documentation, data export and import, report, graphics, statistics, calculation, creation of indicator models, multiple regression, ex-ante and ex-post forecasts and so on. The MAXDATA handbook not only describes all these features in detail, but may also be regarded as a general introduction to the management and evaluation of empirical data, especially time series, and to the concept of central numerical databases on personal computers.