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Recorded Annual Meeting Presentations (RAMP) are now available for purchase.
Only $90 for presenters, $140 for registered attendees and $200 for non-attendees.

Online Program

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SEER*Stat: A software tool for studying the impact of cancer on a population-Day 1 Basic Information-SEER*Stat rates analyses, Overview of age-adjusted rates and rate sessions


Saturday, October 31, 2015 : 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Steve Scoppa, BS, Information Management Services, Inc., Calverton, MD
The purpose of this presentation is to provide the foundation for how and why age-adjusted rates are calculated and the multiple data sources required as well as introduce the SEER*Stat rate session

Learning Areas:

Assessment of individual and community needs for health education
Basic medical science applied in public health
Biostatistics, economics
Epidemiology
Public health or related nursing
Public health or related research

Learning Objectives:
Explain the usefulness of age-adjusted rates and how they are computed. Demonstrate how to produce basic age-adjusted incidence rates using SEER*Stat

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: Mr. Scoppa has provided SEER*Stat training courses at each of the last 12 annual conferences, as well as SEER*Stat training at several other conferences including multiple years at the APHA annual conference. Mr. Scoppa is a senior systems analyst and is the lead developer for the SEER*Stat software as well as the contact for technical support for both applications.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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