This tool provides automatic calculation for:
A table describing the observed cases, the expected cases and the standardized incidence or mortality ratio (SIMR) and its confidence interval.
A graph representing SIMR and its confidence interval.

For each sex value in the data file, a table and a graph are returned with the results for each  introduced group.
SIMR is the ratio of cases observed versus the expected.

 

Methodology (PDF)

Files must be ASCII type,";" separated and unquoted values (i.e: ".txt" or ".csv" files).

Variables included in these files must be in the following order:

Data file (click here to view an example):
a) sex: 1 = Male; 2 = Female; 0 = Both sexes. It is not necessary to include all the categories.
b) age.group: ID number of the age group.
c) year: Year or reference year (in case of period).
d) group: Name of the groups to study. For example, when studying cancer sites it could be “Bladder”, “Pancreas”, “All sites”…Or when studying a pathology by geographical areas it could be “Italy”, “France”, “Spain”…
e) cases: Number of cases in each group.
f) population: Population at risk corresponding to each group.

Reference data file (click here to view an example):
a) sex: 1 = Male; 2 = Female; 0 = Both sexes. The same categories as Data file.
b) age.group: It has to match the age values from the age group of data file (defined above).
c) year: Year or reference year (in case of period).
d) group: Name of the groups to study. For example, when studying cancer sites it could be “Bladder”, “Pancreas”, “All sites”…Or when studying a pathology by geographical areas it could be “Italy”, “France”, “Spain”…
e) cases: Number of cases in each group.
f) population: Population at risk corresponding to each group.

Confidence value(1-α): The confidence value to calculate the confidence interval. It has to be between 0 and 1 (usually 0.95).

NOTE: This process could take a few minutes!

Warning: file size must be less than 10MB.