• Purpose of this List
• Evolving "Webology"
• On-line Texts and Courses
• Epidemiology & Evidence-Based Medicine Center Web-sites
• Biostatistics Web-sites
• On-line Government Data Sources and Websites
• On-line or Downloadable Computer Programs
• Teaching
• Other On-Line Materials

Purpose of this List:

This list is selected to provide veterinary students and practitioners useful epidemiology, evidence-based medicine and biostatistics resources on the Web. The emphasis is on academic materials or those materials useful in an academic setting and, due to my interests, likely biased toward agricultural animals. This is not by any means an exhaustive list and some gems are likely missing! Absence of gems is an oversight on my part. To increase the utility of this list in the printed form, the major URLs are not hidden. If you find useful sites that I should consider listing, find any that I should remove from this list or find broken links, please let me know. Please note that I have not made other than a brief, cursory scan of the contents of some of these sites to determine if it appeared sufficiently interesting to warrant including in this list.

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• American College of Epidemiology
• American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine
• American Public Health Association
  • AJPH - American Journal of Public Health
• ASPH - Association of Schools of Public Health
  • Systems Thinking workgroup
  • Distance Programs Database
  • 2009 Summer Programs

Australian College of Veterinary Scientists

• Membership Exams - Subject Guidelines
• Fellowship Exams - Subject Guidelines
• Preparing for Membership Exams in Epidemiology: A study guide for groups, 2006 (html, pdf)

BEME Collaboration - Best Evidence Medical Education

BestBETs - Best Evidence Topics - Evidence-based medicine at its best

Betty C. Jung's website

Campbell Collaboration - Systematic reviews of C2 Social, Psychological, Education, and Criminological Trials Registry (C2-SPECTR), and the C2 Reviews of Interventions, and Policy Evaluations (C2-RIPE).

CDC training

• EIS - Epidemic Intelligence Service (2 yr postgrad training)
  • case studies
• Public Health Training Opportunities

CEBM - Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (Oxford)

• Critical Appraisal Sheets
• Powerpoint presentations
• Levels of Evidence and Grades of Recommendation (RTF doc)
• The EBM Toolbox
• PaT Plot

CEVM - Centre for Evidence Based Veterinary Medicine (U Nottingham)

Centre for Health Evidence - University of Alberta (Formerly EBM: Bridging Evidence to Practice (McMaster University - The Origin of EBM) "know what to do, do what is known, understand what is done"

• Evidence-Based Medicine: A New Approach to Teaching the Practice of Medicine (JAMA 268(17):2420-5, 1992 html)
• Users' Guides to Evidence-Based Practice

Center for Infectious Diseases & Emergency Readiness - UC Berkeley School of Public Health

• Materials
  • Conducting an Outbreak Investigation in 7 Steps (or less) - slide pdf  handout pdf  note pdf
  • I left my heart (and more) in San Francisco - student pdf  instructor pdf

CIDR - Center for Infectious Diseases & Emergency Readiness, UC Berkeley

CIFOR - Council to Improve Foodborne Outbreak Response

• Guidelines for Foodborne Disease Outbreak Response - TOC

CONSORT - Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials

• STARD - checklist pdf

EBDM - Evidence Based Decision Making (USC Health Sciences)

ebm:

• Grading quality of evidence and strength of recommendations, 2004 BMJ 328:1490
• Levels of Evidence and Grades of Recommendations, 2006 - U Minn pdf
• Levels of Evidence and Grades of Recommendations, <2005 - JG Wright pdf

EBVMA - Evidence-based Veterinary Medicine Association

• An Evidence-Based Veterinary Medicine (EBVM) Bibliography, 2007 - 24 pg pdf

Electronic Public Health (Links - Institute of Health Sciences, Oxford)

epidemiolog.net (an evolving text web site - V. Schoenbach)

epidemiology history:

Sir Bradford Hill

• The Bradford Hill considerations on causality: a counterfactual perspective (Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2:11, 2005 html)
• The Environment and Disease: Association or Causation? (Proc Royal Soc Med 58 (1965), 295-300 html)
• The missed lessons of Sir Austin Bradford Hill (Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations 2004, 1:3 html)

Hippocrates:

• Wikipedia entry
• Works by Hippocrates (English translations)

John Snow:

• UCLA site
• Wikipedia entry

EpiMonitor.net

• EpiSource

EpiVetNet Home Page (Dirk Pfeiffer, Massey University, New Zealand - Nice site)

Evidence Based Decision Making (GS Doig, U Sydney)

evidence-based medicine:

• EBM Librarian
• Evidence-based pediatrics web site - University of Michigan
  • CATs
• Evidence-based medicine for UW Medicine residents (static?)
  • CATs by Topic
  • Curriculum

Evidence-Based Medicine (journal - BMJ)

Evidence Based Medicine - Clarian eLearning Experience, Methodist Emergency Medical and Trauma Center

• What is Evidence-Based Medicine? (2000, WH Cordell, CD Chisholm)

Evidence-Based Practice (links to resources - U Washington Health Sci Library)

Evidence-based Medicine Resource Center - New York Academy of Medicine, Evidence-based Medicine Committee, American College of Physicians, New York Chapter

factbites - evidence-based medicine

FOCUS on Field Epidemiology (North Carolina Center for Public Health Preparedness)

FOCUS Issues

• Overview of Outbreak Investigations
• Anatomy and Physiology of an Outbreak Investigation Team

FSRPN - Food Safety Research and Response Network

• Epidemiology Core
  • Considerations in the design of epidemiologic studies addressing food safety issues
  • Sample size calculations

GRADE working group (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation)

• GRADEpro (GRADEprofiler)
• The GRADE approach and Summary of Findings Tables (training modules)

I.D.W.L Infectious Disease Weblink: An Infectious Disease Specialty Supersite (links)

Introduction to Evidence-Based Medicine (on-line tutorial, Duke University, University of North Carolina)

ISI Histcite Bibliographic Analysis - Eugene Garfield - Evidence-based Medicine 92-04

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

• Fundamentals of Epidemiology (course materials on-line)

Journal Club Toolbox - Washington U. School of Medicine

KDnuggets (Data mining website - links to on-line resources)

Medical Geography - The Geography Site

mathepi.com - Mathematical Epidemiology

medepi.com - Medical Epidemiology - (T Aragon, CIDR UC Berkeley)

National Guideline Clearinghouse

NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (Univ. York)

• CRD Report 4: Undertaking Systematic Reviews of Research on Effectiveness

RCVS Wellcome Library

• Evidence-based practice in the veterinary profession (revised from Veterinary Times, 34 (5), 16 February 2004 html)
• Evidence-based veterinary medicine resources - list (Andrew Booth, Tom Roper)

RATL - Risk Analysis Teaching and Learning Home Page - David M. Hassenzahl, U Nevada Las Vegas

Society for Medical Decision Making

SurveyMonkey.com

The Cochrane Collaboration (Preparing, maintaining and promoting the accessibility of systematic reviews of the effects of health care interventions)

• Cochrane Reviewer's Handbook
• InformedHealthOnline (consumer review summaries)
• Review production resources
• Useful Links

The Wisdom Center (registration required - online informatics courses, reference materials)

• Evidence Based Practice - index

TripDatabase (evidence-based medical resources - Jon Brassey and Dr Chris Price)

University of Washington Health Links

• Evidence-based Practice (Dr. Matt Hollon)
  • Evidence-based Medicine for UW Medicine Residents
    • Curriculum
  • Evidence-based practice resources

US News and World Report

• Public Health School Rankings

wikipedia

• Category - Medical Informatics
  • Evidence-based medicine
  • Medical Subject Headings
  • Meta-analysis
• Category - Epidemiology
  • Epidemiology

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On-line texts:

• A New View of Statistics (WG Hopkins, SportScience)
• The Little Handbook of Statistical Practice (GE Dallal, Tufts)
• HyperStat Online Statistics Textbook (DM Lane, Rice U)
• Introductory Statistics: Concepts, models and applications (DW Stockburger, Missouri State U, US Air Force Academy)
• Online Statistics: An Interactive Multimedia Course of Study (D Lane, Rice University)
• Statistics: The Study of Stability in Variation (UCLA on-line statistics textbook)
• StatPrimer (Version 6.2 - B. Burt Gerstman, San Jose State U)
• SURFSTAT Australia   (The University of Newcastle - includes links, on-line introductory course, glossary and text materials)
• The Little Handbook of Statistical Practice (GE Dallal, Tufts)

American Statistical Association (ASA) Section on Statistics in Epidemiology (SIE)

AustVet Animal Health Svcs - Software - FreeCalc, Survey ToolBox, QCEL Laboratory Quality Controll Toolkit

• Pooled Prevalence Calculator
  • User guide (pdf, html)

Bayes:

• An intuitive explanation of Bayesian reasoning (E Yudkowsky)
• A technical explanation of technical explanation (E Yudkowsky)
• Bayesian Epidemiologic Screening Techniques - UC Davis
• Introductory Econometrics using Monte Carlo Simulation with Excel (book webpage)
• ISBA - International Society for Bayesian Analysis
• Lawrence Joseph: Bayesian sample size
• PropMisclassSampleSize - Bayesian sample size determination for prevalence and diagnostic studies in the absence of a gold standard
• on-line Bayes calculator
  • Estimated true prevalence using one test with a Gibbs sampler

Bureau of Transportation Statistics - Statistical Policy and Research

• Guide to Good Statistical Practice in the Transportation Field, 2003 - TOC - pdf
• BTS Statistical Standards Manual, 2005 - TOC - pdf
• Guidelines of the Federal Statistical Organizations - Federal Register 67(107),  June 4, 2002 pdf

categorical data:

• Categorical Data Analysis, 2nd ed website  Agresti, A
  • Software supplement for categorical data analysis
• TableSim - A Program for Analysis of Small-Sample Categorical Data (manual NC-232, 2003 pdf)

clinical decision making:

• Clinical Decision Making Calculators (RM Hamm, U Oklahoma)
• Decision Analysis in Healthcare - HAP 730, J Wojtusiak, George Mason U
  • Decision Trees
• MindTools
  • Decision Trees: Choosing by projecting "expected outcomes"
• books:
  • Weinstein MC, HV Fineberg (1980). Clinical Decision Analysis
• wiki:
  • decision tree

Curious Cat Library

• Design of Experiments
• Statistics Connections
• Statistics Articles, Reports, Handbooks and Guides

diagnostic test evaluation:

• Bayesian Epidemiologic Screening Techniques - UC Davis
• International Meeting on the Design and Analyses of Diagnostic Test Evaluation Studies, 2006

EpiData Workshop - UC Berkeley School of Public Health

Exact-stats (mail list, archives, files) - JISCmail math & statistics lists

Excel:

• Excel Functions: an index
• Mathtools.net - link exchange for the Technical Computing Community
  • Excel tools
• U Kansas Technology Documentation - Excel
  • Functions & Data Analysis Tools (Univ of Kansas, pdf)
• Using Excel for Statistics - Tips and Warnings - U Reading S

EHDP - Expert Health Data Programming, Inc.

• Epigram - Mortality Data Analysis System
• Birtha - Birth Data Analysis System
• PregData - Pregnancy Data Analysis System
• Links to US State Health Agencies
• Epidemiology Software Links
• Links Related to Large Health Data Sets
• Comparison of Interactive Mortality Data Analysis Systems

FedStats

Free Statistics

• free statistical software
• learning statistics

GraphPad

• resource library

Interactive Statistical Pages

• AusVet - EpiTools epidemiological calculators
• JC Pezzullo, Georgetown U
  • Free Statistical Software On-line ( tutorials, reviews)
  • Web Pages that Perform Statistical Calculations!
• Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics (DM Lane)
• SISA (Simple Interactive Statistical Analysis) (D Uitenbroek - on-line analysis procedures)
• Statistics Calculators - Daniel Soper
• UCLA Dept of Statistics Calculators
  • Power Calculator
• VassarStats: Web Site for Statistical Computation (R. Lowry, Vassar)
• Virtual Laboratory in Probability and Statistics (K Siegrist, U Alabama - explanation text & applets)
• Web Pages that Perform Statistical Calculations! (JC Pezzullo, Georgetown U)

Journal of Statistics Education - (on-line 93 - 00 archives)
http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/toc.html

Linux spreadsheets (Christopher Browne's Web Pages)

Math Archives: Topics in Mathematics (Links, static as of 2001)

• Mathematical Biology
• Probability
• Statistics

Mathcad - MathSoft (MathCAD)

Mathtools.net: The technical computing portal for all your scientific and engineering needs (extensive lists)

modeling:

• Berkeley Madonna (software)
• Introduction to infectious disease modelling & its applications (course announcement)

NRCSE - National Research Center for Statistics and the Environment (U. Washington)

STRUTS: Statistical Rules of Thumb, 1998  - G van Belle pdf

optimal design:

• Teaching Optimal Design of Experiments Using a Spreadsheet, 2004 (P Goos, H Leemans, J Stat Educ 12(3)) - spreadsheets

Power and Precision (sample size software; downloadable demo version)

programming:

Python.org - wiki

• official website
  • Python tutorial
• tools
  • wxGlade - GUI builder
• web
  • One Day of IDLE Toying
• papers:
  • Using Python in a High School Computer Science Program (J Elkner)
• books:
  • A Byte of Python (on-line download)
  • Dive Into Python (on-line index & print - Amazon)
  • How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python, 2^nd (J Elkner, AB Downey, C Meyers - on-line index & print - Amazon)
  • Python Programming - wikibook
• forums
  • comp.lang.python
  • Python-forum
    • free python books

Ruby - wiki

• Programming Ruby: The pragmatic programmer's guide - TOC
• Ruby on Rails
• Ruby Programming - wikibook

R (longer entry below)

• Quick-R for SAS/SPSS/Stata Users
• R Commander: Basic statistics GUI for R (John Fox)
• RStudio
• R Wiki
• The R Journal
• wiki

Recursive Partitioning Resource Center

Resampling Stats

• Introduction to Programming with Resampling Stats and Statistics101 with Applications to Probability and Statistics (John Grosberg, pdf)
• Overview of Computer Intensive Statistical Inference Procedures (P Adam Kelly html)
• Resampling: The New Statistics (on-line text, Julian Simon, 1997) - TOC
• The Philosophy and Practice of Resampling Statistics (Julian Simon) - TOC
• Resampling Statistics: Randomization and the Bootsrap (DC Howell, U Vermont)

Resources for Methods in Evaluation and Social Research

Robert Niles - Data on the Internet

SAS - customer support

• Data Analysis Papers and Presentations

simulation:

• Center for Astrostatistics (PennState) - R tutorials
  • Bootstrap R (S-Plus) Functions
  • Bootstrapping and Monte Carlo methods
• Dr. Mayes' Excel Files
• Excel Simulation - Mathtools.net
• Hethcote, HW UIowa Emeritus Prof
  • pdf's of infectious disease modeling papers
• Introductory Econometrics using Monte Carlo Simulation with Excel (book webpage)
• Introductory Econometrics: Chap 9 Monte Carlo Simulation
• Is Financial Monte Carlo Simulation Dead? (A Roth, Moneywatch, 2/22/10)
• Mathematical Modeling of Infectious Diseases - AL Lloyd, NCSU
  • papers
• Modeling Infectious Disease in Humans and Animals, 2007 (book website)
• Monte Carlo analysis of the Copano Bay fecal coliform model
• Monte Carlo - Business Functions (free function library for excel)
• Monte Carlo Simulation for uncertainty analysis - downloads
• Monte Carlo methods - links
• Monte Carlo Simulation - Anthony's VBA Page
• Monte Carlo simulation in MS Excel (pdf)
• Monte Carlo Simulation in Excel: A Practical Guide
  • Monte Carlo Simulation Basics
• Monte Carlo Simulation Tutorial (Excel - partial free on-line)
• Monte Carlo Simulation Tutorials (K Teknomo)
• Resources on Monte Carlo Simulation
• SIMTOOLS - Excel add-ins - Roger Myerson, U Chicago
• SimulAr - Monte Carlo simulation in Excel
• Simulacion 4.0
• Spreadsheets as a Tool for Teaching Simulation (paper)
• Spreadsheets in Economics teaching (references)
• Stella Rodent Model
• Wilf, Herbert - UPenn
  • Generating Functionology
• YASAI (Yet Another Simulation Add-in) - J Eckstein, S Riedmueller, S Reed, Rutgers
  • manual - html
  • YASAI: Yet Another Add-in for Teaching Elementary Monte Carlo Simulation in Excel (INFORMS Trans Ed 2(2) 12-26, 2002 pdf)
  • YASAIw - WA Dept Ecology
• papers:
  • Teaching Business Modeling Using Spreadsheets, 2008 (INFORMS Trans Ed 9(1) 20-34, pdf)
• wiki - Monte Carlo method

STATA

• On-line STATA resources
• Stata FAQs
  • repeated measures
• Stata List - archive
• User Group Meetings
• Stata Modules - Boston College Department of Economics
  • RePEc Archive
• Stata - UCLA Academic Technology Services/a>
  • Stata Frequently Asked Questions
  • Stata Learning Modules
  • Stata Library Detailed Stata Web Pages
    • Panel data analysis using GEE
  • Stata Programs for Data Analysis
    Stata
• Stata examples and notes
  • Stata basic commands (J Li, J Lee)
    • panel data
  • An Introduction to Stata (E Peracchi, 75 pg pdf)
  • Introduction to Stata (CF Baum, pdf)
  • Longitudinal Data (A Hubbard, N Jewell, ppt ppt - class page)
  • Longitudinal data analysis 140.655 Francesca Dominici, Johns Hopkins
  • Programs and tutorials written by Stas Kolenikov

  books:

  • Hamilton, Lawrence C., prof of sociology, U New Hampshire
    • Statistics with Stata series (ver. 9)
  • Logistic Regression with Stata (UCLA Academic Technology Services - online book)
  • Regression with Stata (UCLA Academic Technology Services - online book)
  • Statistical Modeling for Biomedical Researchers (WD Dupont - Stata datasets, log and do files for book) - website

StatGraphics Internet Statistical Computing Center

• case studies and articles

Statistical Rules of Thumb - TOC

• Monthly rules of thumb

Statistical Services Center (U Reading)

• Guides to good statistical practice

Statistics.Com (listing of statistical software, statistical short courses)

Statistics101 (Java program running "Resampling Stats" language

• Introduction to Programming with Resampling Stats and Statistics101 with Applications to Probability and Statistics (John Grosberg, pdf)

Statistix for Windows (Analytical Software - free trial download)

Statmodel - Mplus (Structural equation modeling) - discussion

STROBE: STrengthening the Reporting of OBservational studies in Epidemiology

SURV2: Relative Survival Analysis Program

• Paul Dickman - Stata relative survival

UnifyPow (A SAS Module/Macro for Sample-Size Analysis, R O'Brien, Cleveland Clinic Foundation)

Washington Statistical Society - Methodology Seminars

WISE (Web Interface for Statistics Education - Claremont College)

class notes:

• COE 502: Introduction to Quantitative Methods (GV Glass, Arizona State University on-line statistics course with includes links to other materials)
• Logistic Regression (PA 765: Quantitative Research in Public Administration - NCSU)
• Stat 504 - Analysis of Discrete Data
  • inference for log-linear models - Sparse data

people:

• Bretthorst, Larry
  • Probability Theory As Extended Logic
• Pezzullo, JC, Georgetown U
  • Free Statistical Software On-line ( tutorials, reviews)
  • Web Pages that Perform Statistical Calculations!
• Schield, Milo - Statistical Literacy (Augsburg College)

blogs:

• AI and Social Science
  • Comparison of data analysis packages: R, Matlab, SciPy, Excel, SAS, SPSS, Stata (2/09)
• Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science (Andrew Gelman, Aleks Jakulin)

Wikipedia - Statistics

• Design of Experiments
• Binomial distribution
• Generalized estimating equation
• Poisson distribution
• Study design

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Animal Health Australia

NAHIS - The National Animal Health Information System

CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

• FastStats A to Z CDC NCHS (National Center for Health Statistics) Fastats Index
  
• National Vital Statistics System - Mortality Data

Census Bureau - National Data Book

CHSI - Community Health Status Indicators Project (Health Resources and Services Admin, HHS)

Department of Labor

• CPI - Consumer price index
• PPI - Producer price indexes
• Occupational Employment and Wages
  • Epidemiologists (19-1041)
  • Statisticians (15-2041.00)
  • Veterinarians (29-1131.00)
• Occupational Outlook Handbook
  • Epidemiologists
  • Statisticians
  • Veterinarians
• O*Net OnLine
  • Epidemiologists (19-1041.00)
  • Biostatisticians (15-2041.01)
  • Statisticians (15-2041.00)
  • Veterinarians (29-1131.00)
    

FedStats (US Federal statistics contributed to site by federal agencies)

French Sentinel System

Health Canada Disease Surveillance On-Line

NAHMS - USDA Nation Animal Health Monitoring System

NAHSS - USDA National Animal Health Surveillance System

NIST StRD - Statistical Reference Datasets (datasets with certified computational results for statistical software evaluation ))

NCI SEER (National Cancer Institute Surveillance, Epidemiology & End Results)

NCI SRAB (Statistical Research and Applications Branch)

PAHO - Pan American Health Organization

• EQUIDAD - Equity, Health & Human Development list serve
• PPAHO Publications

Statistical Resources on the Web (University of Michigan Documents Center)

UK National Statistics Gateway

Understanding the World Today

• Program Evaluation and Social Research Methods

USDA

• CAHIA - Center for Animal Health Information and Analysis
  
• ESMIS - Economics, Statistics and Market Information System
• ERS - Economic Research Service
  
• NASS - National Agricultural Statistics Service

US GAO - General Accounting Office (GAO - investigative arm of Congress)

WHO

• World Health Report (annual)
• WHOSIS - WHO Statistical Information System

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AusVet Animal Health Services

• FreeCalc - planning and analyzing surveys for freedom from or detection of disease
• SurveyToobox - software for planning, conducting and analyzing animal health surveys
• QCEL - Quality Control For ELISA's
• epidemiological calculators

Boston College Department of Economics Statistical Software Components (many downloadable STATA modules)

CLIVE (Computer-aided in Learning In Veterinary Education)

Win Episcope 2

CMDT (Computational methods for diagnostic tests)

• TG-ROC - readme&  xls  update

EPIDAT (Epidemiological Analysis of Tabulated Data - PAHO)

• ggeneral help (English) pdf

EpiData Software (data entry and documentation - Lauritsen, Bruus, Myatt)

• Field Guide wiki
• Example Cases

Epi-Info - CDC (Free software for data management and epidemiologic analysis)

EpiTools.Net (T Aragon, UC Berkeley)

• Applied Epidemiology Using R (T Aragn, W Enanoria)

EPIZOO:  Software for use in Veterinary Public Health and Animal Disease Control (Vaclav Kouba)

experimental design:

• Design of Experiments (Defra UK)
• EDGAR - Experimental Design Generator And Randomiser (JKM Brown, John Innes Centre)
• Power, Sample Size and Experimental Design Calculations - StatPages.org (JC Pezzullo)

Free Public Health Software (written by Mark Myatt)

EpiCalc 2000                    Statistical calculator
FP Advisor                        Foodborne disease database 
SampleXS                         Sample size calculator for cross-sectional surveys 
SigmaD                              Standardization of measurement 
SOUNDEX Calculators     Confidentiality of data / identification of duplicate records 
SampleLQ                          Sample size calculator for LQAS surveys
SampleRate                        Sample size calculator for a single rate
EpiGram                             Simple diagramming software 
Statistical Utilities                Statistical and epidemiological utilities (by Ray Simons)
EpiInfo Add-ins                   Logistic regression and survival analysis for EpiInfo .REC files

Free Statistical Software

GraphROC for Windows: Tools for clinical test evaluation

Healthcare Freeware

Interactive Statistical Pages

• AusVet Animal Health Services: Better health through applied epidemiology (Angus Cameron)
  • Freedom from Disease Probability Calculator
  • McNemar's Paired Sample Test (Paul Fearn)
  • Sample size calculations
• Calculators On-Line Center - Martindale's The Reference Desk
• Fisher's Exact Test - wiki
  • Andrew Gelman - I hate the so-called Fisher exact test (blog 5/15/09)
• GraphPad Software - QuickCalcs
  
• Java Applets (Duke Dept. Stats)
  
• SISA (Simple Interactive Statistical Analysis) (D Uitenbroek - on-line analysis procedures)
  
• The number needed to treat - wiki
• Web Pages that Perform Statistical Calculations!  (JC Pezzullo, Georgetown U - tutorials, free software, reviews)

Lawrence Joseph: Bayesian sample size software

MedCalc 3000 (on-line medical calculations)

Medical College of Wisconsin Online Clinical Calculators

• Bayesian Calculator (Pr, Se, Sp, TP, TN, FP)

NetEpi: Free, open source, network-enabled tools for epidemiology and public health practice (Tim Churches)

NurseGroups

• On-line Clinical Calculators
• Evidence-based Nursing

OpenEpi - Open Source Epidemiologic Statistics for Public Health (Emory U Rollins School of Public Health)

• wiki

PEPI : Statistical Programs For Epidemiologists (JH Abramson, Hebrew Univ) - dead links

PEPI-for-Windows (WINPEPI) - Brixton Health - Joe Abramson

• WINPEPI (PEPI-for-Windows): computer programs for epidemiologists (Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations 2004, doi:10.1186/1742-5573-1-6)

power and sample size:

• G*Power
• Java applets for power and sample size (R Lenth, U Iowa)
• Power Analysis for ANOVA Designs (M Friendly, York U)
• Program for Computing Sample Size
• PS: Power and Sample Size Calculation (WD Dupont and WD Plummer, Dept. of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt U)
• Sample Size Calculator - k stage designs (JL Kepner, Am Cancer Soc)
• Sample Size Calculations Simplified (G Dallal, Tufts)
• Sample Size Estimation (J Eng, Johns Hopkins)
• Statistical considerations for clinical trials and scientific experiments (DA Schoenfeld, Harvard School of Public Health)
• UnifyPow: A SAS module for sample-size analysis (R O'Brien)

Prophet Software - Statistical and Sequence Analysis Software

Public Domain Software for Epidemiological Analysis - DOS and Windows (UCLA School of Public Health)

R - R Project for Statistical Computing (freeware language and environment for statistical computing and graphics that is similar to S)

• R Project for Statistical Computing
  • CRAN - Comprehensive R Archive Network
    • Contributed Documentation
      • An Introduction to R: A programming environment for data analysis and graphics (WN Venables, DM Smith - pdf)
      • Introduction to R and R Commander, 2010 (D Gutermuth - pdf)
      • SimpleR: Using R for introductory statistics (J Verzani - pdf - replaced by book; pkg incorporated into UsingR)
      • Statistics Using R with Biological Examples, 2007 (K Seefeld, E Linder - pdf)
      • Using R for Data Analysis and Graphics (JH Maindonald - pdf)
      • Analysis of Epidemiological Data Using R and Epicalc (V Chongsuvivatwong - pdf)
      • An R companion to "Experimental Design" (Vikneswaran - pdf)
      • R for biologists, 2009 (M Martinez - pdf)
    • R: A language for data analysis and graphics (R Ihaka, R Gentleman, J Computational and Graphical Statistics 5(3):299-314 (1996)) - pdf
  • R FAQ
  Analysis of epidemiological data using R and Epicalc (on-line text) - WHO TDR Training in Tropical Diseases
• Applied Epidemiology Using R (T Agragon, W Enanoria)- medepi.com
  • Applied Epi Using R (Public Health 251D - Google site)
  • Chapters
  • Epitools R Package
• EpiCentre
  • epiR
• Quick-R for SAS/SPSS/Stata users (Rob Kabacoff, Management Research Group)
  • Basic graphs
    • Box plots, bag plots
• R Commander: Basic statistics GUI for R (John Fox)
• R Graph Gallery
• R Primer
• RStudio
• R Tutorials (WB King, Costal Carolina U)
  • log linear analysis
• Rweb - statistical analysis on the web (web-based interface)
• R User Documentation - U Mich
  • Graphics with R - pdf
• UCLA R resources - R
  • R class notes
• people:
  • Burns, Patrick - tutorials
    • Some hints for the R beginner
    • Spreadsheet Addiction
    • The R Inferno, 09 - pdf
  • Fox, John
    • R Commander: A basic-statistics GUI for R
      • Getting started with the R Commander - pdf  older pdf
  • Lawson, B
    • Simulation 101
    • Monte Carlo and discrete-event simulations in C and R, 2008 - pdf
  • Scott, TA - biostatistician, Vanderbilt Dept Biostatistics - R Clinic
• books:
  • Data Analysis and Graphics Using R - An Example-Based Approach, 3rd ed. 2010 (J Maindonald, J Braum)
    • book website
  • Linear Models with R
    • book website

Resampling Stats (trial version on-line)

• Resampling: The New Statistics 2^nd ed. (JL Simon, 1997) - TOC
  

ROC Software (software; Ben Herman, Kurt Rossmann Laboratories, University of Chicago)

Java applets for power and ample-size (Russ Lenth, U. of Iowa, Excel add-in, Java applets)

SEER Statistical Software (SEER Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results - National Cancer Institute)

Statistics Demonstration Java Applets (EA Suess, Cal State East Bay)

Statistics101 (Resampling Stats programming language)

StatPages.org (JC Pezzullo, Georgetown U) - Free Statistical Software

SURV2: Software for Relative Survival Analysis

symbolic math programs - google

• Slashdot - 3/1/00
• MatLab - 10/25/11
• Sage - 8/31/11 - Open source mathematics software
  

EpitTools Survey Toolbox (software for planning, conducting and analyzing animal health surveys)

The BUGS Project  

UML - Unified Modeling Language

• BOUML
  • activity diagram
• Dia - GNOME
  • Dia for Windows
• Java-Source.net
  • Open Source UML & Modeling in Java
• My Little UML (Tools) Page
• UML Overview
• UML Tools
• UML2 - UMLet
• wiki

Vanderbilt Medical Center

• ABSRISK: Absolute & Relative Risk freeware (WD Dupont, WD Plummer)
  
• PS: Power and Sample Size freeware (WD Dupont, WD Plummer)
• R and S-Plus Packages, Functions and Documentation
  

W3MCSim - Monte Carlo Simulation (UCLA)

Willows (classifiers)- H Zhang, Yale Univ.

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The World-Wide Web Virtual Library:

• Epidemiology (huge list of epidemiology resources and sites on the Internet)
  
• Evaluation of information sources
  
• Statistics (static 2003)

Hardin MetaDirectory of Internet Health Resources (U Iowa)

Medical Student and MD (web ring)

The James Lind Library: Illustrating the development of fair tests of treatments in health care

• Chalmers I. Archie Cochrane (1909-1988)
• Petrosino, A. Charles Frederick [Fred] Mosteller (1916-2006)

Martindale's The Reference Desk

American Medical Association

• Finding and assembling the best Evidence
  • Extended reference to the concepts and resources
• Diffusion of Information in Medical Care

Anatomy of an Epidemic

APHA - American Public Health Association

• List of Schools of Public Health

APTR - Association for Prevention Teaching and Research - curriculum

• Competency to Curriculum Toolkit, 2008 - pdf
• Core competencies in disease prevention and health promotion for undergraduate medical education, 1997 - pdf
• Inventory of Knowledge and Skills Relating to Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (curriculum guide - pdf)

ARCUS Quickstat (Biomedical statistics - downloadable trial version)
http://www.camcode.com/

Artica (an interactive epidemiologic investigation for k-12)
http://www.gene.com/ae/mystery/

Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine
http://www.atpm.org/

Association of Teachers of Veterinary Public Health and Preventive Medicine
http://www.cvm.uiuc.edu/atvphpm/

• Model Veterinary Public Health / Preventive Medicine Curriculum
  http://www.cvm.uiuc.edu/atvphpm/Files/vetcurriculum.pdf
• Software and On-Line Resources
  http://www.cvm.uiuc.edu/atvphpm/Software.html

Bad Science (Dr. Ben Goldacre) - wiki

Betty C. Jung's Web site (public health - huge)
http://www.bettycjung.net/

Bibliografia sulla qualit delle informazioni mediche (English bibliography on the quality of internet medical materials)
http://www.irfmn.mnegri.it/oncocare/it/qualita.htm

Bibliography on Evaluating Internet Resources (Nicole Auer, Virginia Polytechnic and State University)
http://www.lib.vt.edu/research/libinst/evalbiblio.html (dead link 3/01)

Bruce Weaver's Links (Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster Univ)
http://www.angelfire.com/wv/bwhomedir/

Cattle Disease Diagnostic System (CaDDiS)    (Veterinary Informatics & Epidemiology, University of Strathclyde and University of Glasgow)
http://www.dis.strath.ac.uk/vie/CaDDiS     (Interactive CaDDiS model)
http://www.dis.strath.ac.uk/vie/CaDDiS/docs/Home_Page.html     (CaDDiS Home Page)

Causality (C R Shalizi, U Michigan Center for the Study of Complex Systems)
http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/notebooks/causality.html

CDC On-line Presentations
http://www.cdc.gov/genetics/resources/online.htm

EXCITE (CDC Excellence in Curriculum Integration through Teaching Epidemiology - Epidemiology training materials for K-12)
http://www.cdc.gov/excite/index.htm

CEPH (Council on Education for Public Health - accrediting body)
http://www.ceph.org/

• CEPH Accredited schools and programs

Comparison of Interactive Mortality Data Analysis Systems
http://www.ehdp.com/epigram/compare1.htm

Complex Systems in Biology (M. Chicurel, tools and centers for understanding complex biological systems, BioMedNet #38)
http://biomednet.com/hmsbeagle/38/webres/insitu.htm (requires site login and password (free))

Cognitive Function and Decision making

• Changing Minds
  http://changingminds.org/index.htm
  • Theories - Decision Errors
• Psych Central - List of cognitive biases
• Wikipedia - list of cognitive biases

DefendingScience.Org (Project on Scientific Knowledge and Public Policy (SKAPP): application of scientific evidence in the legal and regulatory arenas)
http://www.defendingscience.org/

• American Journal of Public Health Supplement: Scientific Evidence and Public Policy (Vol 95, S1, July 2005) (toc - subscription required)

Delta Omega Public Health Honorary Society Classics (PDF texts by John Snow, Florence Nightengale and others)
http://www.deltaomega.org/classics.htm

Ed Rigdon's SEM FAQ (structural equation modeling)
http://www.gsu.edu/~mkteer/semfaq.html

Emergency Medicine on the Web ( National Center for Emergency Medicine Informatics - includes on-line clinical calculators)
http://www.ncemi.org/

Epidemiology for Journalists: Briefing Papers for Journalists (D. Wartenberg, Univ. of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey)

• A Guide to Statistics and Data Analyses
• Basic Questions
• News and Numbers

Epidemio-L (list for methodological issues in epidemiology)
Archives through 12/99 and subscription information
http://cooke.gsf.de/wjst/projects/epidemio-l/main.cfm

Epidemiology Resources
http://vein.library.usyd.edu.au/links/epidemiology.html

EpiMonitor (Epidemiology Monitor)
http://www.epimonitor.net/

Evaluating Drug Literature Actively (slide series, Paul Cuddy)
http://cctr.umkc.edu/user/cuddy/druglit/index.htm

Evaluating internet information - Virginia Tech

Evaluating Internet Research Sources (Robert Harris, Vanguard Univ)
http://www.sccu.edu/faculty/R_Harris/evalu8it.htm

Evaluating Internet Sites - American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Evaluation of information sources - Criteria - Alastair Smith, Victoria U of Wellington

Evidence Based Medicine: Finding the Best Clinical Literature (U Illinois)
http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/health/ebm.html

Framework for and assessment of the weight of evidence in the relationship of exposure to moulds in indoor settings and human health effects - Appendix 1
http://www.mcmaster.ca/mieh/mapp.htm

Free Medical Journals .com
http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/

Grading System for Recommendations in Evidence-Based Clinical Guidelines (Scotland - PDF)
http://www.nzgg.org.nz/tools/Grading System for Recommendations - Review Report.pdf

Guidelines for Good Epidemiology Practices 
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/Organizations/DDIL/gep.html

How to do Research (advice, links - I. Kennedy)
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/3238/

How to do research (advice - Paul Hutchinson)
http://www.angelfire.com/biz/rumsby/ARES.html

How to do research (links - S Miksch)
http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~silvia/research-tips/

How to Read a Clinical Journal (New York Medical College)
http://www.complab.nymc.edu/Medicine/ReadJournal.htm

How to study statistics (advice - Paul Hutchinson)
http://www.angelfire.com/biz/rumsby/ASTUDY.html

HCRA - Harvard Center for Risk Analysis

Injury Control Resource Information Network
http://www.injurycontrol.com/icrin/

Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences (RH Mulford Library, Medical College of Ohio)
http://www.mco.edu/lib/instr/libinsta.html

International Food Information Council (IFIC)

• Improving Public Understanding: Guidelines For Communicating Emerging Science on Nutrition, Food Safety, and Health
  http://ific.org/proactive/newsroom/release.vtml?id=17560
• IFIC Review: How to Understand and Interpret Food and Health-Related Scientific Studies
  http://ific.org/proactive/newsroom/release.vtml?id=17953
• Glossary (mostly food terminology but includes some study terminology)
  http://ific.org/glossary/

International Animal Health Code - 1999 Edition
http://www.oie.int/Norms/MCode/A_summry.htm

Introduction to Clinical Reasoning Home Page (Medical University of South Carolina)
http://www.musc.edu/muscid/icrhomepage.html

• Evidence Based Medicine Concepts
  http://www.musc.edu/muscid/ebmconcepts.html
• Evidence Based Medicine Glossary
  http://www.musc.edu/muscid/glossary.html

Knowledge Management in Health Services (on-line course - L. Larson, Univ. Wash)
http://courses.washington.edu/~hs590a/hs590a.html

Medical Education On-line (on-line journal and resources)
http://www.Med-Ed-Online.org/

Resource section http://www.Med-Ed-Online.org/resource.htm#resource

• ORINTA: A Small Software Program to Learn Risk Ratio and Odds Ratio in an Elementary Course of Epidemiology
• An interactive lecture about the logistic function as a tool for assessing risk
• Measurement of Risk in Epidemiology (minicourse)
• Statistical Power Calculator
• Interrater Reliability Calculator
• STAT*WRITER (electronic pearl-book for class notes and factoids of medical training)

Institute of Medicine Report on Medical Mistakes - press
http://www.uhmc.sunysb.edu/prevmed/mns/mcs/1/sched/news.html

Links2Go: Probability and Statistics
http://www.links2go.com/topic/Probability_and_Statistics

National Center for Reliable Health Information (formerly National Council Against Health Fraud)
http://www.ncahf.org/

The Alt Med Advisory Page - NCRHI Veterinary Task Force (links to materials)
http://www.seanet.com/~vettf/

National Public Health Partnership
http://www.dhs.vic.gov.au/nphp/index.htm

• A Proposed Schema for Evaluating Evidence on Public Health Interventions
  http://www.dhs.vic.gov.au/nphp/ppi/evidence/isspaper/index.htm
• A Proposed Schema for Evaluating Evidence on Public Health Interventions (Version 3.1) July 2001 (PDF file, 508k)
  http://www.dhs.vic.gov.au/nphp/ppi/evidence/schema/schema.pdf

News & Numbers (Victor Cohn, Washington Post science editor - Reporting Tools for reporters)
http://www.facsnet.org/report_tools/news_numbers/main.html (dead link)

Outbreak (Outbreak is an on-line information service addressing emerging human diseases.)
http://www.outbreak.org/cgi-unreg/dynaserve.exe/index.html

Outcomes from Observational Studies: Understanding causal ambiguity
http://www.diahome.org/abstract/dij1262.pdf

P.Mean Website (SD Simon)

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

ProMED (Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases - listserver and other information)

Quackwatch: Your Guide to Health Fraud, Quackery, and Intelligent Decisions (Stephen Barrett, M.D., medical editor, Prometheus Books)

Ralph R. Frerichs (UCLA School of Public Health)

• Epidemiologic Information on Bioterrorism
  
• John Snow Website
  

Reporting on Risk: A Journalist's Handbook on Environmental Risk Assessment

Senn, Stephen

• Cross-over Trials in Clinical Research - Programs
• Dicing With Death: Chance, Risk and Health
  
• Pharmaceutical Statistics Links
  

Skeptoid: Critical Analysis of Pop Phenomena (Brian Dunning)

spreadsheets:  wiki

• EuSpRiG - European Spreadsheet Risks Interest Group
  • How do you know your spreadsheet is right? Principles, Techniques and Practice of Spreadsheet Style, 2005 (PL Bewig) - pdf
  • New guidelines for spreadsheets, 2001 (JF Raffensperger) - pdf
  • Spreadsheet Engineering: A research framework, 2002 (TA Grossman, U Calgary, Google docs) - pdf
  • Spreadsheet modeling best practice, 1999 (N Read, J Batson) - pdf (chap 5 - design rules, chap 6 - model building)
• SERP - Spreadsheet Engineering Research Project (Stephen Powell, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth)
  • A critical review of the literature on spreadsheet errors (Decision Support Systems 46:128-138, 2008 pdf)
  • Errors in operational spreadsheets (J Organizational End User Computing 21(3):24-36, 2009 pdf)
  • Spreadsheet risk, awareness, and control - doc
• Spreadsheet Engineering: A research framework, 2002 (TA Grossman, U Calgary, Google docs)
• Spreadsheet Engineering Ltd.
  • Spreadsheets in clinical medicine: A public health warning, 2006 (GJ Croll, RJ Butler, pdf)
• The New Guidelines for Writing Spreadsheets (JF Raffensperger, U Canterbury, Int J Business Econ 2(2):141-154, 2003)
• The Spreadsheet page (J Walkenbach)

Statistics and Statistical Graphics Resources (Michael Friendly, York University SCS) - static 8/04

Statistics.Com - on-line courses (extensive links to software, databases)

• Resources
  • on-line stats book
    

Cause - Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education

• Analysis Tools
• Teaching Methods
• Statistics Education Links - Online Statistical teaching materials (Juha Puranen, Univ. Helsinki)

Statistics on the Web (Clay Helberg)

• Pitfalls of Data Analysis (or How to Avoid Lies and Damned Lies)  
  

Maths, Stats & OR Network (The Higher Education Academy)

Task Force for Veterinary Science

Teaching Inference about Proportions Using Bayes and Discrete Models (J Albert, J Stat Educ 3(3), 1995)

The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly or Why it's a good idea to evaluate web sources SE Beck, New Mexico State U Library

TransSecurityReport Outbreak Global Incident Map

Ultimate Guide to Thinking Critically about Web Resources - Clickinks.com articles

University of Cambridge Institute of Public Health

University of Texas Statistical Services FAQ

US Federal Judicial Center Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, 2^nd ed 2000 (for Federal Judges - downloadable sections)

How Science Works
Reference Guide on Epidemiology - 68 pg pdf
Reference Guide on Toxicology
Reference Guide on Survey Research
Reference Guide on Statistics - 96 pg pdf
Reference Guide on Multiple Regression
Reference Guide on Engineering Practice and Methods

Zoonoses and Veterinary Public Health - WHO

• diseases
• information resources
  

World Bank Public Health Surveillance Toolkit

Ulcer story:

• Barry J. Marshall, J. Robin Warren - Nobel Price 2005
• CDC site
• Wikipedia - John Lykoudis

Humor:

• Infectious Awareables

Blogs and other evolving sources:

Blogs:

• Aetiology (Tara C. Smith)
• BarfBlog: Musings from the international food safety network
• Effect Measure (static as of 5/17/10)
• Epidemiologic Inquiry
• Framing Science
• Health Mongers
• journalClub
• Medical News Feeds
• medpundit
• Respectful Insolence
• Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• The Pump Handle: A water cooler for the public health crowd

Listservs

• Evidence-based Health - archives - Oxford
• Evidence-based Libraries - archives - Oxford

Wikipedia:

• Epidemiology
• Evidence-based medicine

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