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Description
Interface Summary | |
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MacawCurationAPI | Macaw is a data curation application that stores and retrieves its data via methods of this interface. |
MacawRetrievalAPI | External software clients such as the SWIFT governance tool or future information portal services will use interact with the repository of Macaw variables via this interface. |
MacawSecurityAPI | Copyright 2010 Medical Research Council Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. |
Class Summary | |
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AliasFilePath | is an association between a logical location for data associated with a variable and a physical location |
AvailabilityState | describes which kinds of users can access a variable |
Category | provides a general grouping for NSHD variables |
CleaningState | describes a general method used to clean a variable |
ConstantConverter | Copyright 2010 Medical Research Council Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. |
DerivedVariable | a Variable that has been created using data from one or more Variable . |
MacawListChoice | Copyright 2010 Medical Research Council Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. |
OntologyTerm | Copyright 2010 Medical Research Council Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. |
RawVariable | a Variable that relates to a particular question on a particular form of a particular survey that forms part of the NSHD’s ongoing study. |
SupportingDocument | describes a document used to provide background information about a derived variable. |
User | Copyright 2010 Medical Research Council Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. |
ValueLabel | describes an answer to a survey question |
Variable | A concept related to the NSHD study. |
VariableSummary | Describes the minimum amount of information in a search result for a Variable. |
Enum Summary | |
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ValueLabel.EditingOperationType | |
VariableTypeFilter | describes the types of variables in the system. |
Contains classes that represent business concepts in the system. Most of the classes will support three kinds of activities:
Variable
represents a single type of data that has been
uniformly gathered about each member in the NSHD study. In most cases, a
variable will describe some survey question and its associated results for
each case study member. Each variable is associated with a number of attributes
such as
These ideas are described more thoroughly in the Variable
class.
A Variable also has a number of other attributes which are represented as objects of
these classes:
SupportingDocument
, which is a document that scientists can
read to find out how results for a variable were determined. For example, a PDF
document called "Ethnicity Definitions" could describe how scientists recorded the
ethnicity of someone from the study.
OntologyTerm
, which is a concept that is used to tag a variable
so that the variable can be picked up in a search based on concepts and not by text phrases
that appear in fields of Variable classes.
AliasFilePath
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