US Patent 7627432 System and method for computing analytics on structured data

A system, method and computer storage medium are provided for computing analytics on structured data from at least one data source. Statistical estimates are computed using a statistics object. Software is provided which is capable of performing any of the data processing methods selected from the pass, stream and merge methods and performing at least one statistical calculation on data from the data source using the statistics object to compute statistical estimates by at least one method selected from the provided data processing methods.