Overview

SEER is developing a new SEER*Stat application, currently referred to as SEER*Stat Beta. We would like help in testing this beta version before it replaces the current SEER*Stat application.

SEER*Stat Beta has the following new features:

  1. An updated look and feel.
  2. A Single Document Interface (SDI) instead of a Multiple Document Interface (MDI) which provides a simpler user experience.
  3. An option to graph results within the application.
  4. A new method to construct selection statements graphically.
  5. Backward compatibility (i.e., the same files can be opened in both the old and new applications).

Note: The beta version is still being tested, so you may encounter some bugs. If you have the current version of SEER*Stat installed, please keep both versions and run them in tandem to verify that the two applications produce the same results. We do not recommend using SEER*Stat Beta to publish results.

This new beta version may look different, but it functions like the current version. The screens use a similar layout for familiarity. The biggest change may be the SDI interface, which is similar to how Office products such as Excel or Word work.

Client-server Settings and Database Access

When using client-server mode, SEER*Stat Beta connects to a different default server than the current application. It connects to seerstatnew.imsweb.com and uses port 2038 (the IP address is 144.202.234.136). It is identical to the current server, and contains all of the same databases. A dedicated server for the beta version will help to better track any bugs and roll out features specific to the new version.

If you have the current application installed, you will be asked if you want to import your settings the first time you run the beta version. Please import your settings but update the server location for the beta application.

The SEER*Stat Help System can be accessed from within the program or directly through https://seer.cancer.gov/help/seerstat.

If you have any comments, questions, or bugs to report, please email them to seerstat@imsweb.com. "Beta Test" is included in the subject line so we can differentiate messages from regular SEER*Stat emails.

Installation

To request and download the installation program for SEER*Stat Beta, follow the link below. All new software releases will be available here and first time users will be required to register and agree to the terms of use.

The SEER*Stat software has an auto-update feature. After you have installed SEER*Stat for the first time, the software can be configured to automatically upgrade with the SEER*Stat release or to delay the update for a couple weeks after the release. See Auto-updating in SEER*Stat for more information.

Current SEER*Stat users may sign up for e-mail updates to receive advanced notice of software releases.

Download SEER*Stat Beta

In most cases to use SEER*Stat, you must have access to the SEER Research 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 Research Data.

Download SEER*Stat Beta

Open the Readme.txt (TXT, 18 KB) or preview the file below to see the latest changes.

SEER*Stat Beta Readme File 

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SEER*Stat 9.0.32.0
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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

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
  -  User Profiles for managing workflow

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CLIENT-SERVER CONFIGURATION
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With this configuration, SEER databases are stored on a centralized
server location and calculations are performed on SEER's
dedicated hardware.  Client-Server mode is the only way to access
data made available from SEER. You can have local databases with your 
own data in addition to that located on the server. When using a 
database on the server, 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. You may also need to allow communication
over some ports in your firewall. More information about this can be 
found in our online help.

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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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  -  Pentium-based PC
  -  32-bit or 64-bit Microsoft Windows Operating System
     (Windows 10, 11, etc.)
  -  1024 x 768 or greater monitor resolution
  -  Any valid web browser application for viewing the help online
  -  64 MBs application RAM
  -  Approximately 41 MBs disk space
  -  High speed Internet connection if using the client-server
     configuration

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INSTALLATION
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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 \ Profiles \ Preferences dialog, 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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If you are using a local database, and multiple users need access to
it, we recommend placing the data files in a network location. Each
user will have their own copy of SEER*Stat installed on their PC, 
but they can specify a network location as their data source. 

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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.

If you wish to completely remove an earlier version prior to
installing this current version, use the Settings / Apps & features
section to uninstall the application.

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REVISION HISTORY
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Version 9.0.32
1. The Filter Number dialog would not allow you to press OK when a Rounding of 1 was selected.
2. Changed the name of the "Highlight" button on the Results window to "Highlight / Format". 
3. Sometimes the display of a "Maximum number of cells in result" warning would cause an error. 
4. If a selection line was past 8000 characters, and needed to be split, an error would occur. 
5. In the Case Selection Line dialog, sometimes a pasted selection statement was not parsed correctly.
6. When editing the variable name in the Edit Variable dialog, pressing the Delete key would delete the selected variable grouping.
7. On the Results window, the Highlight button would not enable the Column Popup Menu with multiple columns selected.
8. When using the Client-Server Login dialog, you would sometimes get an "unrecognized communication error". 
9. Copying pages from a large result would cause the application to appear to lockup. 
10. Ctrl+P and other hotkeys were not working on the Results window. 
11. In the Variable Edit dialog, hitting delete while editing a group name would cause an error. 
12. In the Project Profiles dialog, selecting an invalid profile should let you upgrade your version if possible.
13. Fixed some validation issues in the Variable Edit dialog.
14. Added a matrix footnote when a user-defined age variable is used for age adjusting in a Rate or Prevalence session.
15. Fixed a bug when pasting a statement into the Case Selection Line dialog.
16. Decreased the resources used by the controls in the Case Selection dialog.
17. Fix for the Edit Variable dialog where using the Update function might create a grouping with a blank name on save.
18. Added a validation on execute or save for any variables with blank grouping names.
19. Loading a session with a merged variable sometimes triggered the Invalid Variable dialog incorrectly.
20. Fixed a bug in the Case Selection window where evaluating a merged variable might cause an exception.
21. Fixed a bug in the Case Selection window where changing the selection statement to be shown graphically might result in 
    a statement that behaved differently than the original.
22. In the Case Selection window, when a selection statement is modified to be displayed graphically, a dialog is popped up 
    to show the changes in the statement. 
23. Launching the program with a file (double-clicking in Windows Explorer) was not updated the Recent File and Folder lists.
24. Updated controls for CanSurv option on the Parameters Tab of the Survival session.
25. Upgraded OpenSSL encryption to 3.0.16.
26. Fixed a bug in saving of Survival session with Case Listing output that includes a calculated variable based on a field 
    that is not allowed in case listings. 
27. Added a warning in Survival session when the selected cutoff date is beyond the default.
28. Fixed a bug in loading minimum number of cases for a saved session when there is no forced suppression for the database.
29. Removing a display variable on the Table tab would not highlight the next selected variable.
30. Minor UI changes to the Edit Merged Variable dialog. 
31. The combo box list for a Rate session Standard Population might sometimes have a blank line in it. 
32. When sorting on the Select Database dialog, the currently selected row was not still highlighted.
33. Added radio buttons to select the field to filter on in the Select Database dialog.
34. Added quotes and indent around variable names in the warning message when a variable gets replaced with a default.
35. Added specialized database warning messages specific to session type.
36. Adding a new profile will automatically make that the current profile.
37. The filter in the Select Database dialog has been enhanced.
38. In a matrix SAS export, a fix for SAS variable short names.
39. The rounding of integers in the matrix display would sometimes cause values without a leading zero ".00". 
40. On the Output window, Copy Page and Copy All Pages were including flags even when they were unselected for display.
41. For a merged variable, pasting lines in the Case Selection Window would not enable the OK button.
42. The New Line button on the Case Selection window would sometimes be in the wrong place after a drag and drop.
43. Range values with spaces in it would cause the session to be unexecutable with no error message.
44. UI fixes / changes to the Standard Selection Details dialog.
45. In the Output Window, Highlight Column / Row will highlight over all selected cells.
46. In the Output Window, moving the focus cell with the keyboard will remove any highlighted rows or columns.
47. Sometimes default selections on the Selection Tab were not being checked.


Version 9.0.31:
1. Fixed a problem where Copy - All Pages (on the Result window) was not working.
2. The copied to clipboard text from a Matrix was not including the full title text.
3. When importing from production SEER*Stat, server addresses will now be automatically changed from seerstat.imsweb.com:2038 
   to seerstatnew.imsweb.com:2038.
4. Importing from production SEER*Stat was creating a profile called "Current User Profile". This was confusing. That profile is now
   imported into the "Default Profile".
5. The client application would sometimes have trouble reading database.ine files. 
6. Fixed a bug which would allow you to Create MP-SIR Rates in a Rate session when it was not allowed by the database.
7. Fixed a bug where turning off "Create MP-SIR Rates" would not re-enable the "Hide Statistics When Few Than" control.
8. Minor fix for Survival summary rates having too many rows. 
9. Added support for -oldserver to cover the Phase 1 development server as well. 
10. Fix for a bug where selection statements were not being parsed correctly into the graphical display.
11. Fix for an error when trying to send a local referent rate file to the server.
12. Changes to matrix options didn't always update the graph display.
13. Fix for creating a new profile which launches an auto update.
14. Database citation would sometimes go off the side of the window.
15. Fixed column and row headers not wrapping on the results grid.
16. Fixed columns with flags not being sized correctly to see all of the text.
17. Sometimes databases from mixed data locations (local and remote) were not showing in the combined list.
18. Exported SAS programs were sometimes missing characters.
19. Downloading of Rate files was not displaying progress correctly.
20. Duplicate database ID's in the database.ini file would sometimes cause the Select Database window to not display.
21. The Duplicate database warning message was not displaying correctly.
22. Very large downloads from the server would sometimes cause an error. 
23. Fixed a bug in Survival calculation that affected databases with Survival days.
24. Fix for sessions containing a changed linked database not loading correctly.
25. A Case Listing saved over itself would sometimes introduce an error in the records. 
26. Case Listings were not properly performing a Save As when the destination file was present.
27. Case Listings were sometimes locked after a Save As. 
28. Alt-U and Alt-D were not working on the Edit Variable dialog.
29. Moving groups in the Edit Variable dialog would display an incorrect value for that group.
30. In the Edit Variable dialog, pressing letter keys would not move through the groups.
31. The Referent Rate Import Variable dialog was not working correctly when loading a variable specification.
32. The Referent Rate Import Variable dialog was not working correctly when pressing the Update button.
33. The Profile button on the top right of the main window will now be enabled all of the time. If you select it while a 
    session or result window is open, you will not be able to change the currently selected profile, or modify its data locations.
34. Graph settings are now stored per page displayed, and only remembered while the Result window is open. They do not save with the result file.
35. Flags at the bottom end of a large matrix were not being displayed properly in the Results Window. 
36. Fixed a number of broken help links.
37. Fixed an Out of Memory Error when loading formats with a large number of lines.


Version 9.0.30:
1. Updated the application icon to be more visible.
2. The Session Data tab would sometimes not display the name of the linked database.
3. Added "Database ID", "Link ID", and "Use Summary Files" fields to the Results Settings tab. 
4. Various fixes to tab order and accessibility.
5. Canceling out of a load database would sometimes just start the process again.
6. Fixed an issue where the user would have to re-login when selecting Databases tab on the Project Profile Edit dialog.
7. Improved font size and color for File Menu options.
8. Changed "Settings" tab on the Results window to read "Session Properties". 
9. Importing Profiles would cause the checkmark to disappear on the Project Profiles dialog.
10. The Edit Profile window would report "Name already in Use" when launched at the start of the application.
11. Fixed icons on the Project Profiles and Edit Profile dialogs when launched at the start of the application.
12. The Login window would sometimes fall behind other windows. 
13. The Arrange window functions Tiled, Horizontal, Vertical, and Cascade will arrange all windows on the monitor that the 
    current window resides in. 
14. When viewing a dictionary from the Select Database dialog, you should not be able to change the variables.
15. When changing databases, variables would be removed from a session and no Invalid Variables dialog would be displayed.
16. Values entered for MPSIR Parameters - Latency, Attained Age, Calendar Years were not being saved for the next session.
17. A database change might result in a Rate session having an Age Variable that did not match the Statistic tab Age Variable.
18. In certain situations, using a Merged Variable would cause an error when executing a session. 
19. Fixed an issue where a Survival session would display a warning about a variable that wasn't being used. 
20. Removed Frequency sessions using the Trends statistic. 
21. Updated the copyright date for OpenSSL.
22. Fixed some spacing issues at the bottom of Session Table tabs. 
23. Added a "Copy Variables" button to various screens. This button will allow you to copy variable names to the clipboard. If 
    the variables are in a tree, then a dialog is displayed to allow you to pick the format and selection of the variables.
24. Fixed required range for Confidence Interval Level for Survival, Prevalence, MPSIR, and Life Table sessions.
25. Fixed some display issues on grids with "locked" columns.
26. Fixed a slowdown when displaying very large Case Listing tables.
27. Added a warning message if a session will generate over 20,000 columns.
28. Fixed a bug when SEER*Stat consolidates Period Estimate Year ranges in a Survival session.
29. Added an error message if an Out of Memory occurs when loading a large Case Listing.
30. Fixed formatting for max number of cells error message.
31. Fixed computation of number of cells for Life Table sessions.
32. Fixed an exception which would sometimes happen when changing databases on an MPSIR session.
33. Fixed a problem where selected variables and selection statements for sessions were not retained after a database change. 
34. Added the ability to download offline results.
35. Fixed problem where using the checkbox to save your password would sometimes show a connection error.


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TECHNICAL SUPPORT
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Email: seerstat@imsweb.com

Web: www.seer.cancer.gov/seerstat