Table 2 Criteria and review approach for review of space-time disease surveillance software
From: Review of software for space-time disease surveillance
Criteria | Review |
|---|---|
Data preprocessing | Number of steps involved to process a point event (cases) shapefile and a polygon census shapefile (population) |
Methods | Description of methods offered by each program |
Technical issues | Speed of computation, system stability, automation, operating requirements |
Analysis output | Output options (graphs, maps, reporting) |
User facility | Qualitative assessment rated on scale of 1 - 5 on each of: |
|  |    • Ease of learning |
|  |    • Use |
|  |    • Set up |
|  |    • Documentation/Help |