SaTScanTM User Guide for version 10.0 By Martin Kulldorff July 2021 http://www.satscan.org/ Table of Contents INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................................. 1 THE SATSCAN SOFTWARE .......................................................................................................................... 1 DOWNLOAD AND INSTALLATION ................................................................................................................ 2 TEST RUN ................................................................................................................................................... 2 HELP SYSTEM ............................................................................................................................................. 3 SAMPLE DATA SETS .................................................................................................................................... 3 STATISTICAL METHODOLOGY ....................................................................................................... 6 SPATIAL, TEMPORAL AND SPACE-TIME SCAN STATISTICS .......................................................................... 6 BERNOULLI MODEL .................................................................................................................................... 8 DISCRETE POISSON MODEL ........................................................................................................................ 9 SPACE-TIME PERMUTATION MODEL ........................................................................................................... 9 MULTINOMIAL MODEL ............................................................................................................................. 10 ORDINAL MODEL ...................................................................................................................................... 10 EXPONENTIAL MODEL .............................................................................................................................. 12 NORMAL MODEL ...................................................................................................................................... 12 CONTINUOUS POISSON MODEL ................................................................................................................. 13 PROBABILITY MODEL COMPARISON ......................................................................................................... 14 LIKELIHOOD RATIO TEST .......................................................................................................................... 16 SECONDARY CLUSTERS ............................................................................................................................ 17 ADJUSTING FOR MORE LIKELY CLUSTERS ................................................................................................ 17 DRILLDOWN .............................................................................................................................................. 18 COVARIATE ADJUSTMENTS ....................................................................................................................... 18 SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL ADJUSTMENTS .................................................................................................. 21 MISSING DATA ......................................................................................................................................... 22 MULTIVARIATE SCAN WITH MULTIPLE DATA SETS .................................................................................. 24 COMPARISON WITH OTHER METHODS...................................................................................... 25 SCAN STATISTICS ...................................................................................................................................... 25 SPATIAL AND SPACE-TIME CLUSTERING .................................................................................................. 25 INPUT DATA ....................................................................................................................................... 27 DATA REQUIREMENTS .............................................................................................................................. 27 CASE FILE ................................................................................................................................................. 28 CONTROL FILE .......................................................................................................................................... 29 POPULATION FILE ..................................................................................................................................... 29 COORDINATES FILE ................................................................................................................................... 30 GRID FILE ................................................................................................................................................. 31 NETWORK FILE ......................................................................................................................................... 31 NON-EUCLIDEAN NEIGHBORS FILE........................................................................................................... 32 META LOCATION FILE .............................................................................................................................. 32 MAX CIRCLE SIZE FILE ............................................................................................................................. 33 ADJUSTMENTS FILE .................................................................................................................................. 33 ALTERNATIVE HYPOTHESIS FILE .............................................................................................................. 34 SATSCAN IMPORT WIZARD ...................................................................................................................... 34 SATSCAN ASCII FILE FORMAT ................................................................................................................ 36 BASIC SATSCAN FEATURES ........................................................................................................... 38 INPUT TAB ................................................................................................................................................ 38 ANALYSIS TAB.......................................................................................................................................... 41 OUTPUT TAB ............................................................................................................................................. 44 SaTScan User Guide v10.0 ADVANCED FEATURES .................................................................................................................... 47 MULTIPLE DATA SETS TAB ....................................................................................................................... 47 DATA CHECKING TAB ............................................................................................................................... 48 SPATIAL NEIGHBORS TAB ......................................................................................................................... 49 NETWORK TAB ......................................................................................................................................... 50 SPATIAL WINDOW TAB ............................................................................................................................. 51 TEMPORAL WINDOW TAB ......................................................................................................................... 54 CLUSTER RESTRICTIONS TAB ................................................................................................................... 56 SPACE AND TIME ADJUSTMENTS TAB ....................................................................................................... 57 INFERENCE TAB ........................................................................................................................................ 60 POWER EVALUATION TAB ........................................................................................................................ 63 DRILLDOWN TAB ...................................................................................................................................... 64 MISCELLANEOUS TAB ............................................................................................................................... 65 SPATIAL OUTPUT TAB .............................................................................................................................. 67 TEMPORAL OUTPUT TAB .......................................................................................................................... 70 OTHER OUTPUT TAB ................................................................................................................................. 71 RUNNING SATSCAN .......................................................................................................................... 73 SPECIFYING ANALYSIS AND DATA OPTIONS ............................................................................................