Abrams Allyson M, Kleinman Ken P
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, USA.
Int J Health Geogr. 2007 Mar 6;6:6. doi: 10.1186/1476-072X-6-6.
SaTScan is a software program written to implement the scan statistic; it can be used to find clusters in space and/or time. It must often be run multiple times per day when doing disease surveillance. Running SaTScan frequently via its graphical user interface can be cumbersome, and the output can be difficult to visualize.
The SaTScan Macro Accessory for Cartography (SMAC) package consists of four SAS macros and was designed as an easier way to run SaTScan multiple times and add graphical output. The package contains individual macros which allow the user to make the necessary input files for SaTScan, run SaTScan, and create graphical output all from within SAS software. The macros can also be combined to do this all in one step.
The SMAC package can make SaTScan easier to use and can make the output more informative.
SaTScan是一款为实施扫描统计而编写的软件程序;它可用于在空间和/或时间上查找聚集性。在进行疾病监测时,通常每天必须多次运行该程序。通过其图形用户界面频繁运行SaTScan可能很麻烦,并且输出结果可能难以可视化。
用于制图的SaTScan宏附件(SMAC)软件包由四个SAS宏组成,其设计目的是为更轻松地多次运行SaTScan并添加图形输出。该软件包包含各个宏,允许用户在SAS软件中创建SaTScan所需的输入文件、运行SaTScan并创建图形输出。这些宏还可以组合起来一步完成所有这些操作。
SMAC软件包可以使SaTScan更易于使用,并使输出信息更丰富。