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    EPIDEMIOLOGY CALCULATORS & APPLETS


      Epidemiology Calculators & Applets Related Centers

      Epidemiology Calculators & Applets

        EPIMAX TABLE CALCULATOR - Health Decision Strategies, LLC. VERY EXTENSIVE.
        "...Epidemiology & Lab Statistics from Study Counts With Chi Square, NNT & "Cost to Treat" Estimates..."
        Epimax Table Calculator (Epidemiology Calculator) INPUT values include:
          "...Target Disorder or Outcome (True Posititve, False Positive, etc.);
          Control Group, Diagnostic Test Positive or Exposed to Risk Factor;
          Incremental Cost Per Person (CPP) Per Duration..."
        Epimax Table Calculator (Epidemiology Calculator) OUTPUT values include:
          "...Sensitivity (True positive rate); Specifity (True negative rate);
          Likelihood Ratio +; Likelihood Ratio -; False positive rate; False negative rate;
          Probability of disease; Predictive value positive (Bayes' Theorem);
          Overall accuracy; Relative Risk; etc..."
        For more information see Health Decision Strategies



        EPIDEMIOLOGY CALCULATORS - L. Burd, Online Clinic VERY EXTENSIVE. For more information see Online Clinic

          Examples of Epidemiology Calculators include

            Number Needed to Treat Calculator
            Number Needed to Treat Calculator (Epidemiology Calculator) input values include:
              "...Number of People (Experimental; Control);
              Number Improvement or Disease Progressed; Number Experienced Adverse Effects..."


            Diagnostic Test Calculator
            Diagnostic Test Calculator (Epidemiology Calculator) input values include:
              "...Number Tested Positive (Has Disease, No Disease);
              Number Tested Negative (Has Disease, No Disease)..."



        DISEASE SPREAD APPLET -Environmental Statistics Group, Department of Ecology, Montana State University
        Disease Spread Calculator is
          "...a simple model for disease spread based on direct individual to individual contact. It is a spatially explicit model, a two-dimensional model. The individuals are set out on a 20 by 30 grid, thus with 600 total individuals in the population. Initially, there is some mix of susceptible (S) and immune or resistant (R) individuals in the population. The user controls..."
        For more information see Environmental Statistics Group



        GROUP A STREPTOCOCCUS CALCULATOR - Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, CDC VERY EXTENSIVE.
        Group A streptococcus (GAS)
          "...can cause mild illnesses, such as strep throat and impetigo (a skin infection), as well as life-threatening illnesses, such as necrotizing fasciitis (sometimes called the "flesh-eating disease") and streptococcal toxic shock syndrome..."
        Group A Streptococcus Calculator is a
          "...Calculator to estimate expected number of invasive group A streptococcus cases in county or region..."
        Group A Streptococcus Calculator INPUT Values include:
          "...Current Month;
          Number of invasive GAS cases in current month;
          Number of invasive GAS cases in previous month;
          Mean temperature in previous month;
          County or region population;
          Persons below poverty line;
          Estimated Percentage of GAS cases who are HIV Positive; etc..."
        For more information see Investigating Clusters of Group A Streptococcal Disease; Active Bacterial Core Surveillance; Group A Streptococcal (GAS) Disease; Disease Listing or the Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases



        JAVA EPIDEMIOLOGY - Biology Software Lab, University of Oregon VERY VERY EXTENSIVE.
        Epidemiology Calculator is
          "...computer program that simulates the spread of a disease in a population. By manipulating values such as population death rates, birth rates, the length of time infected individuals are infectious, the probability..."
        Epidemiology Calculator INPUT Values include:
          "...Contact Rate;
          Probability of transmission;
          Disease Death Rate;
          Recovery Rate;
          Birth Rate;
          Death Rate;
          Immunity Loss Rate; etc..."
        For more information see Biology Software Lab



      Experimental Design Calculators & Applets

        EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN GENERATOR AND RANDOMISER (EDGAR) (SPREADSHEETS OPEN ONLINE WITH EXCEL, iWORK-NUMBERS, IBM LOTUS SYMPHONY, NEOOFFICE, OPENOFFICE CALC, ETC.) - J. Brown, John Innes Centre (JIC), Norwich, England VERY VERY EXTENSIVE.
        Experimental Design Generator And Randomiser (EDGAR) is
          "...a programme which generates experimental designs and randomises the position of experimental treatments in the design..."
          "...Experimental treatments are whatever it is that you control in the experiment. These might be, for example, different environmental conditions or fertiliser regimes in which plants are grown, or different media used for tissue culture. Furthermore, if you are interested in how different species, or different genotypes of one species, vary in a particular character, those species or genotypes are considered to be treatments. The term factor refers to a set of different treatments. A typical experiment might investigate..."
        Examples of Experimental Design Calculators include
          "...Randomised Complete Blocks Calculator;
          Randomised Complete Blocks with Unequal Replication of Treatments within Blocks Calculator;
          Alpha design Calculator;
          Randomised Incomplete Blocks of Unequal Sizes Calculator;
          Completely Randomised Design with Equal Replication Calculator;
          Completely Randomised Design with Unequal Replication Calculator;
          Latin Square Calculator; etc..."
        For more information see the John Innes Centre (JIC)



      Health Statistics Calculators & Applets

      Statistics Courses with Calculators & Applets

        SURFSTAT STATISTICS 101 (JAVA APPLETS) - K. Dear, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Multimedia Statistics Course (Text, Images, Calculators & Java Applets).
        Examples of Statistics Course Chapters, Subchapters, etc. include:
          Summarising and Presenting Data
            "...Discrete Data;
            Continuous Data;
            Characteristics of a Distribution;
            Measures of Central Tendency;
            Measures of Variability; etc..."
          Producing Data
            "...Principles of Study Design;
            The Scientific Method..."
          Variation and Probability
            "...Discrete probability distributions;
            Independence and Tree Models for Calculating Probabilities;
            Conditional Probabilities;
            Bayes' Theorem;
            Random Variables;
            Expected Values, Variances and Covariances of Random Variables; etc..."
          Statistical Inference
            "...Populations, samples, estimates and repeated sampling;
            Point estimation and interval estimation;
            Results from probability theory;
            Comparing means of two continuous variables;
            Inference for count data; etc..."
          Control Charts;
          Java Applets;
          Exercises with Solutions;
          Glossary; etc.
        For more information see National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health



        VASSARSTATS: STATISTICAL COMPUTATION - R. Lowry, Department of Psychology, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Multimedia Statistics Course (Text, Images, Calculators & Java Applets). VERY VERY VERY...EXTENSIVE.
        VassarStats: Statistical Computation
          "...This site is dedicated to the free dissemination of knowledge on the world-wide web..."
        VassarStats Statistics Calculators include:
          Utilities Calculators
            Statistical Tables Calculator;
            Randomizer Calculator;
            Simple Graph Maker Calculator; etc..."
          Clinical Research Calculators
          Probabilities Calculators
            "...Randomness and the Appearance of Pattern Calculator;
            Pascal (Negative Binomial) Probabilities Calculator;
            Backward Probability Template Calculator; etc..."
          Distribution Calculators
            "...Binomial Distributions Calculator;
            Poisson Distributions Calculator;
            Chi-Square Distributions Calculator;
            t-Distributions Calculator;
            Distributions of r Calculator;
            F-Distributions Calculator; etc..."
          Frequency Data Calculators
            "...F-Distributions Calculator;
            Kolmogorov-Smirnov One-Sample Test Calculator; etc..."
          Proportions Calculators
            The Confidence Interval of a Proportion Calculator;
            Significance of the Difference Between Two Correlated Proportions Calculator; etc..."
          Ordinal Data Calculators
            Rank Order Correlation Calculator;
            Mann-Whitney Test Calculator;
            Wilcoxon Signed-Ranks Test Calculator; etc..."
          Correlation & Regression Calculators
          t-Tests & Procedures Calculators
            t-Tests for the Significance of the Difference between the Means of Two Samples Calculator;
            t-Test for Independent or Correlated Samples Calculator; etc..."
          ANOVA Calculators; ANCOVA Calculators; etc..."
        For more information see Richard Lowry's Home Page or the Department of Psychology







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