Introduction:

PAMCOMP (Person-years And Mortality COMputation Program) is a free application for calculating person-years and standardised mortality ratios (SMRs).The program was developed with Visual Basic 6.0 (SP5) and Visual C++ (SP5) and runs under Windows 95/98/2000/ME/NT and XP. The calculation of person-years allows flexible stratification by sex, and self-defined and unrestricted calendar periods and age groups. Furthermore it is possible to lag person-years to account for latency periods. The SMR computation includes calculation of 90%, 95%, and 99% confidence intervals. Import and export filters for standard personal computer file formats (such as ASCII, dBase, MS-Excel, Paradox and MS-Access) to import cohort and reference data and to export distributions of person-years and deaths are available. In addition importing of external ODBC data sources is possible.

15.04.2002
Test and sample data are updated. See section Downlods 

04.03.2002
Section Citations updated

07.01.2002
Section Known Problems updated

13.12.2001
Section Citations updated

12.12.2001
Section Citations updated

28.11.2001
PAMCOMP 1.41 released