SaTScan: Spatial Scan Statistic Surveillance Software II

描述(申请人提供)：SaTScan是一个免费的统计疾病监测软件包，实现了空间、时间和时空扫描统计。它被美国和世界各地的许多科学家和公共卫生官员用于地理疾病集群检测和评估，以及疾病爆发的早期检测。使用该软件，可以确定疾病病例是否在空间和/或时间上随机分布，或者是否存在具有统计意义的空间、时间和/或时空集群，其病例比预期的多(或少)。关键的是，它针对评估的许多可能的集群位置和大小所固有的多重测试以及协变量进行了调整。随着用户数量的增加，对新的SATScan特性和功能的要求也在增加，包括与地理信息系统和统计软件包的集成、图形输出功能、电力评估工具、更通用的分析选项和易于使用的培训材料。在这个项目中，我们建议进一步开发和维护SaTScan软件，以满足其中许多需求。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): SaTScan is a free statistical disease surveillance software package implementing the spatial, temporal and spatio-temporal scan statistics. It is used by many scientists and public health officials across the United States and around the world for geographical disease cluster detection and evaluation, and for the early detection of disease outbreaks. With the software, it is possible to determine whether disease cases are randomly distributed over space and/or time, or whether there are statistically significant spatial, temporal and/or spatio-temporal clusters with more (or fewer) cases than expected. Critically, it adjusts for the multiple testing inherent in the many possible cluster locations and sizes evaluated, as well as for covariates. As the number of users increase, there is an increasing number of requests for new SaTScan features and functionalities, including integration with geographical information systems and statistical software packages, graphical output functionalities, power evaluation tools, more general analysis options, and easy to use training material. In this project, we propose to further develop and maintain the SaTScan software to fulfill many of these needs.