Computer Aided Interactive Analysis of Etiological Breast Cancer Factors

摘要

The programs described here are designed to let an individual play with the data. They are interactive. One gets immediate feedback, and it is in a visual form so one can actually see what happened rather than having to figure it out from reams of printed numbers. These programs happen to run on a Macintosh computer, but similar programs are available on other personal and mini computers. The programs are described briefly. One program is Data Desk, written by a statistics professor at Cornell University. It is the most general of the three. Another program, called MacSpin, is famous in the Macintosh community because it was the first to allow three dimensional visualization of data on a personal computer. It was written by a mathematician at the University of California in Berkeley. The third program, MapMaker, will take your data and plot it on a geographic map. This is proving to be quite useful in studying cancer rates in various locations. (ERA citation 14:021589)