What is an Analysis Pattern?
There are various people out there who are working on analysis patterns, but little has been published so far. The best way for me to define an analysis pattern is for me to give a small example. Figure 1 shows the measurement pattern from my book. The specific context is that of capturing measurements about a patient in a health care setting. The obvious way to capture measurements of a patient is to represent them as attributes of the patient. This works well if there are not too many, but a hospital can measure hundreds or thousands of such measurements. Defining an attribute for each one would mean that person would have thousands of operations – an untenably complex interface. A solution to this is to consider all the various things that can be measured (height, weight, blood glucose level, and so on) as instances of the object type phenomenon type. Now a person may have many measurements each of which assigns a quantity to a specific phenomenon type. A person now has only one att
