S2A solution to this problem was seen in the development of the high-speed electronic computers. The Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, which was responsible for conducting the forest survey of the heavily forested Northeastern States, investigated the possibilities and devised the Northeastern Forest-Inventory Data Processing System. The purpose of this paper is to describe a part of the system, the subsystem EDIT, which is designed for high-speed editing of large numbers of unit records.S3.

S2The Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, which was responsible for conducting the forest survey of the heavily forested Northeastern States, investigated the possibilities and devised the Northeastern Forest-Inventory Data-Processing System. This paper describes a part of the system, subsystem TABLE, that is designed specifically to reduce large amounts of sample data to tables of statistics for the samples. In turn, sample summary output, is designed for use as input to program OUTPUT (see part VIII of this series) to produce tables of statistics for the sampled populations.S3.

S2A solution to this problem was seen in the development of the high-speed electronic computers. The Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, which was responsible for conducting the forest survey of the heavily forested Northeastern States, investigated the possibilities and devised the Northeastern Forest-Inventory Data Processing System. This paper presents information for programmers on a part of the system, subsystem EDIT. A general description of program EDIT and detailed instructions for its use in solving data-processing problems are given in parts II, and III of this series. In the following chapters will be found selected programming information that will be useful if the programs must be modified for any reason.S3.