SEER*Stat Tutorials: Fundamentals
SEER*Stat Basics
Please read through the Session and Matrix Windows tutorial before moving to exercises for specific calculations.
Calculating Frequencies
- Frequency Exercise 1a: Introduction to SEER*Stat
- Software interface - session types
- Basic concepts - order of operations, variable definition
- Generating results
- Frequency Exercise 1b: User-defined Variables
- File management strategies - extracting a session from the results matrix
- Introduction to the data dictionary - creating your own variables
- Frequency Exercise 2: Cancer Site and Customizing Results
- 3 SEER variables related to cancer type
- Customize the results - matrix options
Individual Cancer Records (Case Listings)
- Case Listing Exercise 1a: View Individual Cancer Cases
- Create lists of tumors, not lists of people
- Formats of variable values in the output
- Case Listing Exercise 1b: View Patient Histories
- Narrow selection of persons based on cancer history
- Multiple tumors listed per person in data
