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A Satscan Macro Accessory For Cartography (Smac) Package Implemented With Sas Software, Allyson M. Abrams, Ken P. Kleinman

Public Health Department Faculty Publication Series

BACKGROUND:

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.

RESULTS:

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 …