Rate Stabilizing Toolbox

Small Area Estimation ArcGIS Pro Python Toolbox

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The Rate Stabilizing Toolbox (RSTbx) is an ArcGIS Pro Python toolbox for generating reliable, local-level age-standardized measures of chronic disease developed from scratch in partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to replace the original Rate Stabilizing Tool.

It composed of three tools:

• Census Data Retriever Tool (CDR): Utilizes the Census API to download county or tract-level population tables (optionally stratified by age) along with boundary files from the Census HTTP server.
• Individual Data Processing Tool (IDP): Aggregates individual data to an optionally age stratified population table and preforms checks to warn user if input data is invalid.
• Rate Stabilizing Tool (RST): Utilizes a restricted CAR model to generate optionally age adjusted rates for local areas given the population data from the IDP and a geographic layer.

It improves on the original RST by radically simplifying the interface, speeding up estimatation time, and providing better error/warning messaging.