SEER*Stat Installation
The installation program(s) for SEER*Stat are provided below. All new software releases will be posted here and will include the version number in the filename. SEER*Stat's title bar includes the version number so that you can see if you are using the latest version.
The SEER*Stat software has an auto-update feature. The software can be configured to automatically upgrade with every SEER*Stat release or only to update if it is a major release. See Auto-updating in SEER*Stat for more information.
Installation Files
In most cases to use SEER*Stat, you must have access to the SEER 1973-2005 Limited-Use Data. The installation program provided here does not include or provide access to these data. If you have not done so already, please
follow the steps to Access the SEER Limited-Use Data.
SEER*Stat Readme File
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SEER*Stat 6.4.4
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The SEER*Stat statistical software provides a convenient, intuitive
mechanism for the analysis of SEER and other cancer-related
databases. It is a powerful PC tool to view individual cancer
records and to produce the statistics listed below. These statistics
are useful when studying the impact of cancer on a population.
Frequency and Rate Statistics
- Frequencies
- Row and column percentages
- Crude (non-adjusted) rates with standard errors and
confidence intervals
- Age-adjusted rates with standard errors and confidence
intervals
- Incidence-based mortality rates
- Rate ratios for significance testing
Trends Over Time (based on frequencies and rates)
- Percent changes (PC)
- Annual percent changes (APC) with confidence intervals
- Comparison of APCs with zero
- Comparison of two APCs with one another
Survival Statistics
- Observed survival
- Net survival (absence of other causes of death)
- Relative survival
- Cause-specific survival
- Crude probability of death (presence of other causes of death)
- Using expected survival
- Using cause of death
- Option to adjust for heterogeneity in withdrawal when using
expected survival
- Comparison of two survival curves (Z-statistic)
- Conditional survival - a survival rate conditioned on having
survived x years (for example, a 10-year rate for individuals
having already survived 5 years)
- Actuarial and Kaplan-Meier methods
- Period survival for all survival session methods
Limited-Duration Prevalence Statistics
- Prevalence counts
- Crude (non-adjusted) percents
- Age-adjusted percents
- Profile survival for limited-duration prevalence (future)
Multiple Primary - Standardized Incidence Ratio Statistics
Comparison of cancer incidence in a defined cohort of persons
previously diagnosed with cancer to cancer incidence in the general
population. In other words, The MP-SIR session allows you to
define a cohort of people based on first cancer diagnosis
(exposure) and to follow them through time to compare their
subsequent cancer experience (observed events) to population based
expected values.
Case Listings
- The values stored in the database for individual records are
presented in a table.
- You choose the variables displayed and select the records to be
included in the table.
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FEATURES
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- Easy to use interface
- Comprehensive help system
- Ability to select/exclude cases using multiple primary criteria
(i.e., SEER*Stat realizes a person can have more than one tumor)
- Handles complex selection/subset statements with support for
full Boolean logic
- Multi-dimensional matrices for reporting results
- Support for copying and pasting cancer records and statistics
into spreadsheet or charting/graphing packages
- Ability to export records and statistics to a generic data file
for input by other statistical systems such as SAS
- Print preview
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CLIENT-SERVER CONFIGURATION
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With this configuration, all data are stored in a centralized
location at the SEER Program and calculations are performed on SEER's
dedicated hardware. If you utilize this mechanism, you do not need
to maintain the SEER data on your local computer system. Each time
you execute an analysis, the parameters of your request will be
transferred over the Internet from your computer to the SEER*Stat
server. Once the calculations are complete, the results will be
transferred back to your computer. A high speed Internet connection
is required for this configuration.
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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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- Pentium-based PC
- 32-bit Microsoft Windows (95, 98, NT, 2000, XP, Vista, etc.)
- 800 x 600 or greater monitor resolution
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0+ for viewing help
- 32 MBs application RAM
- Approximately 6 MBs disk space
- High speed Internet connection (not a dial-up modem based) if
using the client-server configuration
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INSTALLATION
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To install from the SEER Public-Use CD #1:
- Insert the CD into the drive
- From the Start menu, choose Run...; type [cd-drive]:\setup.exe
- Follow the instructions on your screen
To install using the installation program from the Internet:
- Download the installation program from
http://seer.cancer.gov/seerstat/software
- Within Windows, double-click on the downloaded file
- Follow the instructions on your screen
Unless the data location is changed from the default with the File,
Preferences... dialog, the CD must be located in the drive or you
must have an account within the client-server configuration to
execute SEER*Stat.
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LOCAL AREA NETWORK INSTALLATIONS
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A single copy of the SEER*Stat executable and data can be placed on a
network for multiple persons to utilize. This configuration is
highly recommended because updates to SEER*Stat can be performed on
the single network installation instead of modifying each user's
desktop PC.
Copy the contents of the [cd-drive]:\bin directory (seerstat.exe and
seerstat.chm) from the CD to a location on the network accessible by
all users. Suppose this location is called "\\fileserv1\SEERStat".
Then copy the [cd-drive]:\data directory and all its sub-directories
from the CD to this location. This will yield a directory on your
network called "\\fileserv1\SEERStat\data".
On each user's desktop PC, create a Windows shortcut to
"\\fileserv1\SEERStat\seerstat.exe". The first time each user
executes SEER*Stat, it will display the default Primary Data Location
(PDL) and the default User-Defined Variables Location (UVL). The
default PDL is "\\fileserv1\SEERStat\data". The UVL varies by the
version of Microsoft Windows.
If a network installation is configured, use must be confined to
persons that have completed the SEER Public-Use Data Agreement. If
others wish to make use of the system, each must complete the SEER
Program's Public-Use Data Agreement available on the SEER Web page
at the following address.
http://seer.cancer.gov/dataagreements/seer.pdf
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REMOVING PREVIOUS INSTALLATIONS
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Existing versions of SEER*Stat do not need to be removed from your
system prior to installing this newer version.
This version may NOT allow you to analyze data contained on CDs
earlier than SEER*Stat 6.3.6. If you need to analyze data from earlier
CDs, you may not want to overwrite an earlier installation with this
version.
If you wish to completely remove an earlier version prior to
installing this current version, use the Add/Remove Programs icon in
the Windows Control Panel.
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REVISION HISTORY
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4/24/2008 - Version 6.4.4 - Bug fixes.
1. In a survival matrix, if changes were made on the matrix options
dialog, there was a memory overwrite which often caused SEER*Stat
to shutdown and generate an error message.
2. When opening a saved session (including retrieving one from a
matrix) and access to the original database is no longer
available, the database selection dialog is displayed. Selecting
a new database on this dialog did not reset database specific
parameters as is done when a user changes the database on the data
tab. This has been changed to function like a database change on
the data tab.
4/14/2008 - Version 6.4.3 - Production release of 6.4 features.
4/10/2008 - Version 6.4.1-beta - minor fixes
3/31/2008 - Version 6.4.0-beta
1. Bug fix for MP-SIR. The incorrect behavior is that all potential
events in the rate file count as observed events, but the expected
are calculated correctly (only for those selected), when the
following options are chosen.
- single outcome
- exit on any event in the rate file
- uncheck some of the events
- don't include the selected event variable in the table
2. For MP-SIR, changed the CI default from approximate to exact.
3. For MP-SIR, changed the default exit point for single outcome
analysis from exit on selected events to exit on any event in the
rate file.
4. For MP-SIR, added a checkbox for exiting at next malignant tumor
which is on by default.
5. SEER*Stat will now calculate an age-adjusted rate when there is a
crude age-specific cell with non-zero cases and zero population.
6. SEER*Stat now allows you to calculate period estimates for
multiple user-specified years in the same session. Previously it
only did the latest possible year.
9/25/2007 - Version 6.3.6
1. Exclude certain variables from case listings with the NoCaseList
key in the database.ini.
2. Added descriptions to user-defined variables.
3. Only allow user information to be modified if user is logged in.
4. Fixed page length limit for printing the survival exclusions page.
This would hang the print request.
5. No survival Z-test without standard life or relative rate pages.
6. If no referent rates available, allow user to re-create rates from
the session.
7. Expected rates in survival are only presented when the base fields
match.
8. Added a prompt in the search dialog when there are selected lines
and the user tries to paste.
9. Merged variables are now permitted in the selection dialog. They
are converted, like user-defined variables, to underlying
statements when the OK button is pressed.
10. Negative operators/prefixes are now allowed in merged variables.
11. Added a new line button on the selection dialog
12. SAS code now has lrecl= on the infile statement.
4/12/2007 - Version 6.3.5 - Production release of 6.3 features.
4/5/2007 - Version 6.3.4 - release candidate
3/19/2007 - Version 6.3.3-beta - minor fixes
2/12/2007 - Version 6.3.2-beta - minor fixes
1/23/2007 - Version 6.3.1-beta - minor fixes
1/18/2007 - Version 6.3.0-beta
1. Allow multiple data locations instead of a primary and secondary
data location.
2. Changed survival matrix options so that standard errors are handled
as a group instead of individual flags for each statistic. This
is the same for confidence intervals.
3. Added special selection check boxes for "Malignant Only", "Known
Age", "Male/Female Sex" and "Cases in Limited-Use Database" to all
session types.
4. The ability to specify categories for use with user-defined
variables.
5. Find variable dialog changed to multi-column in order to show
matches found in the format separate from those found in the names.
6. Allow import variable definitions from another database to the
current database.
7. MP-SIR rates tab: the user can see invalid rate-bases with the
reason why they are invalid.
8. MP-SIR rates tab: allow the use of available rate values for cohort
values not in rates.
9. Rate session: Tiwari method for confidence intervals.
10. Frequency or rate matrix export: added feature to preserve matrix
columns and rename variables.
11. Survival statistic tab: missing/unknown CODs are included as dead
broken out between specified cause and other causes.
8/31/2006 - Version 6.2.4
1. There was an error in the prevalence session if you made a
selection using a linked variable (a county attribute). This was
only a problem in the selections (not the table or cohort tabs).
It gave an error and didn't complete; there were no incorrect
calculations.
2. A fix to survival for excluding cases with unknown COD. SEER*Stat
was excluding even when the death was after study cut-off. Since
SEER's COD variables use study cut-off date, most analyses on
SEER's data would be fine. But if the user changed the study
cut-off date, or analyzed a user created database without recoding
the deaths after study cut-off to alive, this would affect the
results.
3. A fix to survival for handling unknown/missing CODs in crude
probability of death analyses. There are three options: exclude,
include as dead, include as censored. The include as censored
option was incorrectly including cases as dead due to other causes.
This has been changed to include these as lost to follow-up. We're
planning to add a fourth option to allow the user to include them
as dead due to other causes in a future release.
4. Matrix export allows the creation of SAS code.
5. Performance enhancements in the dictionary editor for the
State-county variable.
6. The MP-SIR session now supports databases with different variable
for start and event dates. Previous versions only supported date
of cancer diagnosis for both of these dates.
4/5/2006 - Version 6.2.3 - Fix a problem which caused an MP-SIR session
to close if the first database listed didn't have referent rates.
3/29/2006 - Version 6.2.2
1. Change to selection dialog to not accept some invalid characters.
2. Change to not allow matrix save, print, options, etc. if while the
matrix is open, it changes on disk. The change could be by another
person or by the same person having multiple copies open.
3. Reload primary and secondary database.ini files in more situations.
4. Fix to present database citation and database message if a
user-supplied database is listed first.
1/19/2006 - Version 6.2.1 - Set maximum p-value of rate ratios to
1.0 and other minor fixes.
11/22/2005 - Version 6.2.0-beta
1. More graceful handling of lost network connectivity.
2. Go to page number in print preview.
3. Support for large fonts.
4. Password can optionally be remembered.
5. Ability to display a login message obtained from the server.
6. A Primary Data Location (PDL) is no longer required.
7. The PDL and Secondary Data Location (SDL) can be interchanged.
8. Faster loading of sessions when executing in local mode.
9. Referent rates are downloaded separate and thus less often from
the other database materials.
10. Client-server menu items are more prominent.
11. New preferences dialog to more clearly distinguish between local
and client-server mode, and to more clearly distinguish the port
for client-server mode.
12. Faster writing and exporting a matrix to a network location.
13. New database.ini options for disabling the case listing
functionality in Survival and MP-SIR sessions.
14. Improved Data tab in order to more easily distinguish which
databases have linked (SES) data.
4/14/2005 - Version 6.1.4 - More minor improvements and revised help.
Disabled profile survival method for limited-duration prevalence.
4/1/2005 - Version 6.1.3-beta - More minor interface and output
improvements.
3/24/2005 - Version 6.1.2-beta - Minor interface and output
improvements. New help system.
3/17/2005 - Version 6.1.1-beta - Updates to median survival, standard
errors, and the Z-test for Kaplan-Meier survival. Minor interface
fixes.
3/10/2005 - Version 6.1.0-beta
1. Prevalence and rate sessions - statistics can be hidden based on
population size (existing feature based on count remains).
2. Prevalence, rate, and frequency sessions - when statistics are
hidden based on counts, there is no suppression for 0, only
if > 0 and less than the specified number.
3. MP-SIR session - exact CIs (existing approximate CIs remain).
4. Rate ratios for significance testing in the rate session.
5. Profile survival method for limited-duration prevalence.
6. Survival session:
a. Kaplan-Meier survival (actuarial is still the default)
b. New defaults:
- 1 month intervals
- number of intervals changed from 5 to 60 (still 5 years)
- cumulative summary tables on
- standard life tables off
c. Option to include a "0th interval"
d. Special intervals (conditional survival) can be included in
cumulative summary tables
e. Special intervals (conditional survival) are available for all
cumulative statistics
f. Matrix options dialog allows hiding statistics in cumulative
summary tables
g. Dimension of variables can be specified in the cumulative
summary tables
h. New dialog for defining intervals of cumulative summary tables
i. Moved the display section from the output tab to the
parameters tab
j. Period survival for all survival session methods.
7. Save session as an "ini" text file.
8. Improvements to print preview that make it easier to navigate to
the beginning, end, or specified page of a document.
10/18/2004 - Version 5.3.1
1. Fixed error in prevalence session when selecting on age at
prevalence. This error was introduced in version 5.3.0. This
does not affect analyses with age at prevalence in the table
definition.
2. Fixed error in prevalence session survival calculations when the
survival cohort variables do not include values for all records
included in an analysis.
8/16/2004 - Version 5.3.0
1. Ability for a single server to handle both encrypted and
non-encrypted communications.
2. Session printout as text.
3. Survival now defaults to displaying percents.
4. Merged variables now store numeric variable values in the session
and user-defined format libraries in addition to labels.
5. New help system.
6. Prevalence can now be calculated by months prior instead of only
supporting years.
7. Blanks are now removed from MP-SIR parameters before verifying.
8. Fixes for related variables in MP-SIR and person selection
features of other sessions.
9. Exclude population defining variables that can change for a
person (e.g. county) from use in defining referent rates. Also
exclude related variables based on these variables.
10. Always check user-defined variables in search statements on
database change.
11. Session printout now has title.
12. Fixed problem in survival matrix export when multiple page types
are present. Specifically, some export dialog options were not
used correctly for all page types.
4/12/2004 - Version 5.2.2 - Minor fixes to client-server
communications.
4/8/2004 - Version 5.2.1-beta - Corrected a problem with status
updates in client-server mode for the prevalence session, and a
printing problem for databases without a suggested citation if
working client-server mode and the local database cache is not
available.
4/6/2004 - Version 5.2.0-beta - Encrypted communications between the
client and server.
1/15/2004 - Version 5.1.14 - Minor fixes to MP-SIR.
1/13/2004 - Version 5.1.13 - Addition of the Select Only Malignant
Behavior check box to the frequency, rate, and case listing sessions.
Minor bug fixes and additional options for ssexport under UNIX.
1/7/2004 - Version 5.1.12 - Within MP-SIR, the computations of both
"Mean Date of Exposure" and "Mean Date of Event" were updated to
correct a problem of these dates being exactly one year early.
12/19/2003 - Version 5.1.11-beta - Minor fixes.
12/17/2003 - Version 5.1.10-beta - First public release.
12/15/2003 - Version 5.1.9-beta - Updates to MP-SIR and help.
12/5/2003 - Version 5.1.8-beta - Updates to MP-SIR.
12/2/2003 - Version 5.1.7-beta - Updates to MP-SIR.
12/1/2003 - Version 5.1.6-beta - Updates to MP-SIR.
11/24/2003 - Version 5.1.5-beta - Updates to MP-SIR and help.
11/21/2003 - Version 5.1.4-beta - Updates to MP-SIR and help.
11/20/2003 - Version 5.1.3-beta - Updates to MP-SIR.
11/18/2003 - Version 5.1.2-beta - Updates to MP-SIR.
11/12/2003 - Version 5.1.1-beta - Feature complete version of MP-SIR
and new selection dialog.
9/16/2003 - Version 5.1.0-beta - Nearing a feature complete version
of MP-SIR.
9/16/2003 - Version 5.0.20 - Client now attempts a connection to PDL
seerstat.imsweb.com if seerstat.cancer.gov fails.
8/21/2003 - Version 5.0.19 - Modified selection dialog to allow work
with both continuous and discrete values of a variable.
7/21/2003 - Version 5.0.18 - Several minor updates to wording and
presentation to make things clearer and cleaner in the interface and
help system. Added functionality post a variable specific warning
dialog. Several other minor updates to functionality.
4/25/2003 - Version 5.0.17 - Updates to code associated with the
standard population control on the statistic tab of the rate and
prevalence sessions.
4/23/2003 - Version 5.0.16 - Updates to help.
4/15/2003 - Version 5.0.15 - Updates to help.
4/11/2003 - Version 5.0.14-beta - Updates to prevalence and
inclusion of new help.
4/4/2003 - Version 5.0.13-beta - Updates to prevalence and MP-SIR.
3/26/2003 - Version 5.0.12-beta - Inclusion of suggested citations.
3/24/2003 - Version 5.0.11-beta - Updates to MP-SIR.
3/20/2003 - Version 5.0.10-beta - Updates to prevalence and MP-SIR.
3/17/2003 - Version 5.0.9-beta - Updates to prevalence and MP-SIR.
3/12/2003 - Version 5.0.8-beta - Updates to prevalence and MP-SIR.
2/21/2003 - Version 5.0.7-beta - Wider release of the beta product.
2/19/2003 - Version 5.0.6-beta - Minor fixes.
2/14/2003 - Version 5.0.5-beta - Updates to prevalence and MP-SIR.
2/5/2003 - Version 5.0.4-beta - Updates to MP-SIR.
2/3/2003 - Version 5.0.3-beta - Updates to MP-SIR.
1/31/2003 - Version 5.0.2-beta - Updates to MP-SIR.
1/28/2003 - Version 5.0.1-beta - Updates to prevalence and MP-SIR.
1/3/2003 - Version 5.0.0-beta - Initial release with prevalence and
MP-SIR.
10/29/2002 - Version 4.2.7 - Minor fixes to the following.
1. When merged variable base names exceeded 200 characters.
2. Divide by zero situation in the calculation of APCs.
3. Export dictionary when variables were reordered in the matrix.
6/6/2002 - Version 4.2.6 - Performance enhancements to the relational
model that gracefully merges socio-economic data with the cases and
populations for the generation of rates.
5/20/2002 - Version 4.2.4 - Minor fixes and the ability to disable
trends in the frequency session. Also, the ability to independently
specify whether a database should be presented in a frequency and/or
rate session.
4/3/2002 - Version 4.2.3 - Minor fixes.
3/21/2002 - Version 4.2.2-Beta - Minor fixes and the auto-update
feature.
3/7/2002 - Version 4.2.1-Beta
1. Relational model to gracefully merge socio-economic data with the
cases and populations for the generation of rates.
2. New client-server security model that uses groups to maintain
user permissions.
3. Checksum of user's local cache prior to client-server execution.
4. Redesign of communication protocol for canceling a client-server
analysis.
5. Improvements to find variable functionality.
6. Functionality to search for a value in a case listing matrix.
7. Certain dialogs are now sizeable.
8. Use of new common file dialog in Windows 2000 and XP.
9. Ability to specify a path for storing temporary files.
10. Printing enhancements.
11. Ability to cancel a database change.
12. "Tree view" on frequency and rate table tab.
13. User generated standard populations and expected rates are
uploaded to the server for temporary use during calculations.
14. If a database doesn't exist on session open, the user can now
specify which database should be utilized (or attempted).
11/4/2001 - Version 4.1.4 - Set AA rates to default statistic in rate
session; minor bug fixes when switching between databases with
different age variables and standard populations; functionality to
specify default for PC end points in the database.ini.
10/16/2001 - Version 4.1.3 - Several bug fixes including a correction
to problems with exporting a case listing matrix. Added support to
allow use of standard populations with other than 18 age groups.
SEER*Prep 1.8+ is a requirement if processing user-supplied standard
populations.
6/28/2001 - Version 4.1.2-Beta - Corrected problem with ZD sorting.
6/12/2001 - Version 4.1.1-Beta - Corrected problem of frequencies
being three times too large for population only databases.
5/24/2001 - Version 4.1.0-Beta - Split of the frequency/rate session
into two separate entities.
4/2/2001 - Version 4.0.9 - Bug fix for ZD sort not initializing cache
size properly.
3/30/2001 - Version 4.0.8 - Bug fixes.
3/29/2001 - Version 4.0.7 - Bug fixes.
3/28/2001 - Version 4.0.6 - UNIX matherr handler.
3/27/2001 - Version 4.0.5 - Bug fixes.
3/26/2001 - Version 4.0.4 - Bug fixes.
3/19/2001 - Version 4.0.3 - Bug fixes.
2/22/2001 - Version 4.0.2-beta - Generalization of variables included
in the expected rate tables to support SEER*Prep 2.0, bug fixes,
numerous minor enhancements, the ability mask out specified values of
the COD variables when they are displayed in the controls for
cause-specific survival, and the ability to filter statistics with
a decimal point in the case listing matrix.
1/8/2001 - Version 4.0.1-beta - HTML help, bug fixes, and numerous
minor enhancements.
10/10/2000 - Version 4.0.0-beta - Multiple primary selection features
in freq/rate and case listing, cause specific survival, weighted
least squares estimates for APCs, PCs with single year end-points,
case listing output from survival including the cumulative expected
rate, printing enhancements, and general interface refinements.
2/16/2001 - Version 3.0.11 - ZD bug fix for checking set size
needed for compatibility with SEER*Prep 1.5+.
9/13/2000 - Version 3.0.10 - Support for MinimumVersion= key in the
database.ini.
8/28/2000 - Version 3.0.9 - Use of ZD's operator precedence, support
for ICD-10 as a continuous variable, fixes to merged variables when
based on a user-defined, and other bug fixes.
3/27/2000 - Version 3.0.8 - Minor bug fixes over first release
candidate.
3/23/2000 - Version 3.0.7 - First release candidate of "Version 3.0".
3/3/2000 - Version 3.0.5-beta - Export enhancements, conversion of
the export dictionary to an ".ini file", and support for
user-supplied standard millions.
2/10/2000 - Version 3.0.0-beta - Initial release of the case listing
session, enhancements to merged variables, adjustments for
heterogeneity in withdrawal (Hakulinen adjustments) for relative
survival, and an option for user-defined variable definitions in the
session printout.
11/17/1999 - Version 2.1.5 - Fixes for icon problems noticeable in
earlier versions of 2.1. Fixes for problems downloading the database
files file from the server under Windows 9x.
10/22/1999 - Version 2.1.4 - Fix to allow merged variables based on
non-indexed variables.
10/6/1999 - Version 2.1.3 - Minor bug fixes and further performance
improvements for subsetting non-indexed variables.
9/16/1999 - Version 2.1.2-beta - Improved performance for subsetting
on non-indexed variables.
9/14/1999 - Version 2.1.1-beta - Version checking between the client
and server, support for user-supplied expected rates, import/export
of user-defined variables, support for the Census tract variable, the
ability to hide PCs and APCs independently, and support for session
printouts that exceed one piece of paper.
7/16/1999 - Version 2.1 (Beta 2) - Client-server, hyperlinks in
variable descriptions, and minimize on modal status dialog.
7/7/1999 - Version 2.1 (Beta 1) - Borland C++ Builder 4 and variable
merging. Beginnings of Hakulinen adjustments and crude survival.
3/30/1999 - Version 2.0 - Minor fixes over Beta 1.
1/22/1999 - Version 2.0 (Beta 1) - General interface refinements and
minor fixes. Tighter integration with SEER*Prep. Migration to
Borland C++ Builder. Refinements to allow easier maintenance of
network installations. Compilation of calculation module under
Solaris. August 1998 submission of SEER, 1973-1996 diagnoses.
7/21/1998 - Version 1.1.2 - Bug fix in subset for "short" variables
with values exceeding 32k. Needed for State/county variable.
7/9/1998 - Version 1.1.1 - Support for multiple types of summary
files. That is, different variables in each type.
8/11/1998 - Version 1.1a - Functionality to support 1991 Canadian
standard millions.
4/3/1998 - Version 1.1 - General interface refinements and minor
fixes. August 1997 submission of SEER, 1973-1995 diagnoses.
10/15/1997 - Version 1.0 - Printing and footnote enhancements. Help
system and general interface refinements. August 1996 submission of
SEER, 1973-1994 diagnoses.
8/13/1997 - Version 1.0 (Beta 2) - Survival calculations and
enhancements to incidence calculations. User-defined variables are
"memory based" by default and optionally saved to disk. August 1996
submission of SEER, 1973-1994 diagnoses.
3/7/1997 - Beta Version 1.0 - Initial release including incidence
calculations. February 1996 submission of SEER, 1973-1993 diagnoses.
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TECHNICAL SUPPORT
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Email: seerstat@imsweb.com
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