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WWWeb Epidemiology & Evidence-based Medicine Sources for Veterinarians

Version 3.6     Updated April 24, 2008    Links checked 7/21/00

Contents:

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 URL’s 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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Evolving "Webology": (rapidly evolving web-based information communication systems)

Websites:

Blogs:

Wiki:

Other:

  • PLOS: Public Library of Science (open resource scientific and medical literature)

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On-line Texts and Courses:

YES: Young Epidemiology Scholars Competition

Major Items:

A Short Introduction to Epidemiology, 2nd ed. pdf  N Pearce, Massey University, New Zealand, 153 pgs., ISBN 0-476-01236-8, 2005

An Introduction to Veterinary Epidemiology, pdf M Stevenson, Massey University, New Zealand, 90 pgs., 2005

Epidemiology for the Uninitiated, 4th ed. TOC D. Coggon, G. Rose, DJP Barker. British Medical Journal, 1997

Contents:

  1. What is epidemiology?
  2. Quantifying disease in populations
  3. Comparing disease rates
  4. Measurement error and bias
  5. Planning and conducting a survey
  6. Ecological studies
  7. Longitudinal studies
  8. Case-control and cross sectional studies
  9. Experimental studies
  10. Screening
  11. Outbreaks of disease
  12. Reading epidemiological reports
  13. Further reading

How to Read a Paper: The Basics of Evidence Based Medicine. T. Greenhalgh, ed. ISBN 0 7279 1139 2, 184 pp, 1997.

Chapters Selected by BMJ:

  1. Papers that go beyond numbers (qualitative research)
  2. Papers that summarise other papers (systematic reviews and meta-analyses)
  3. Papers that tell you what things cost (economic analyses)
  4. Papers that report diagnostic or screening tests
  5. Papers that report drug trials
  6. Statistics for the non-statistician. II: "Significant" relations and their pitfalls
  7. Statistics for the non-statistician
  8. Assessing the methodological quality of published papers
  9. Getting your bearings (deciding what the paper is about)
  10. The Medline database

HyperStat Online Textbook

STATS - STeve's Attempt to Teach Statistics ("Professor Mean" Steve Simon - research biostatistician, Children's Mercy Hospital)

SticiGui Text: Table of Contents (PB Stark, Dept. Statistics, UC Berkeley) Statistics means never having to say you're certain.

Basic statistics for clinicians (CMAJ - JAMC)

  • Hypothesis testing html1 html2 (Guyatt et al. CMAJ 1995;152:27-32)
  • Interpreting study results: confidence intervals html1 html2   (Guyatt et al. CMAJ 1995; 152: 169-173)
  • Assessing the effects of treatment: measures of association  html1 html2 ( Jaeschke et al. CMAJ 1995; 152: 351-357)
  • Correlation and regression   html1 html2  (Guyatt et al. CMAJ 1995; 152: 497-504)

BMJ Statistical Notes (list - Duke U Medical Center Library)

Concepts and Applications of Inferential Statistics (R. Lowry, Vassar - on-line text)

History of Epidemiologic Methods

Principles of Epidemiology - CDC Self-study course SS3030

Principles of Epidemiology: An introduction to applied epidemiology, 2nd ed. (527 pg pdf Text - CDC self-study course)

Lesson 6: Investigating an Outbreak (78 pg pdf)

Statistics at Square One, 9th ed. TOC TDV Swinscow, Revised by MJ Campbell, 1997, BMJ Publishing Group

Preface
  1. Data display and summary
  2. Mean and standard deviation
  3. Populations and samples
  4. Statements of probability and confidence intervals
  5. Differences between means: type I and type II errors and power
  6. Differences between percentages and paired alternatives
  7. The t tests
  8. The chi-squared tests
  9. Exact probability test
  10. Rank score tests
  11. Correlation and regression
  12. Survival analysis
  13. Study design and choosing a statistical test

Further Statistics in Dentistry
  • Part 1: Research designs 1 - British Dental J 193(7):377-380, 2002  html  pdf
  • Part 2: Research designs 2 - British Dental J 193(8):435-440, 2002  html  pdf
  • Part 3: Clinical trials 1 - British Dental J 193(9):495-498, 2002  html  pdf
  • Part 4: Clinical trials 2 - British Dental J 193(10):557-561, 2002  html  pdf
  • Part 7: Repeated Measures - British Dental J 194(1):17-21, 2003  html  pdf
  • Part 8: Systematic reviews and meta-analyses - British Dental J 194(2):73-78, 2003  html   pdf
  • Part 9: Bayesian statistics - British Dental J 194(3):129-134, 2003  html  pdf
  • Part 10: Sherlock Holmes, evidence and evidence-based dentistry British Dental J 194(4):189-195, 2003  html  pdf

StudentBMJ - Evidence based medicine

Studying Populations: A Computer Assisted Learning Package for Basic Epidemiological Methods (CD-based, downloadable)

Supercourse: Epidemiology, the Internet and Global Health (on-line epidemiology lectures, RE LaPorte, U Pittsburgh, director)

Understanding the fundamentals of epidemiology: an evolving text. VJ Schoenbach, WD Rosamond, U North Carolina, 2000.

Veterinary Epidemiology - An Introduction (D Pfieiffer Univ London, 2002, 62 page pdf)

(note-this Acrobat PDF file is sized for A4 paper. To print on US 8.5 x 11, select "Shrink to Fit" on the "Print" menu. Otherwise, margin printing will be obscured and printer memory overflow may occur.)

Veterinary epidemiology and economics in Africa - A manual for use in the design and appraisal of livestock health policy, 2nd ed. TOC, SNH. Putt, APM. Shaw, AJ Woods, L Tyler, AD James, ISBN 92-9053-076-6, 1989

My Materials:

Alphabetical Items:

Australian Veterinary Health Services Epidemiological Resources

 Guides to active surveillance techniques for developed and developing countries by Angus Cameron.
(note-this Acrobat PDF file is likely sized for A4 paper. To print on US 8.5 x 11, select "Shrink to Fit" on the "Print" menu. Otherwise, margin printing will be obscured and printer memory overflow may occur.)

A Dictionary of Epidemiology (short definitions - Univ Oxford Epidemiology shortcourse)

A Dictionary of (Ecological) Epidemiology (J Swinton, Univ of Cambridge)

An Introduction to Information Mastery (on-line tutorial, MH Ebell, Michigan State U)

Categorical Data Analysis with Graphics (Michael Friendly, York Univ.)

CDC Glossaries:

Clinical Research Training Programs - AAMC

Data Analysis With Epi Info (B Gerstman, San Jose State U)

Electronic Statistics Textbook - StatSoft (based on Stastica and complete, downloadable for quick access (4.7 Mb))

epidemiolog.net (VJ Schoenbach, U North Carolina School of Public Health)

Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases - The CDC Pink Book - pdf files

EPIET - European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training

Exploring Data (curriculum support materials for introductory statistics)

Gerstman, B. Brian - San Jose State U

Guidelines for Investigating Clusters of Health Events (CDC)

Handbook of Medical Informatics (J.H. van Bemmel, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, M.A. Musen, Stanford University, Stanford)

Introductory Statistics: Concepts, Models, and Applications (busness statistics version) WWW Version 1.0 DW Stockburger, Southwest Missouri State University (on-line textbook)

PROPHET StatGuide: Expanded List of Topics

Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics (DM Lane)

STEPS - STatistical Education through Problem Solving: Biology Modules (downloadable modules for statistics training)

SticiGui: Statistics Tools for Internet and Classroom Instruction with a Graphical User Interface (P Stark, UC Berkeley)

Supercourse: Epidemiology, the Internet and Global Health (Professor Ronald E LaPorte, University of Pittsburgh)

SurfStat Australia

Macnaughton, Don - MatStat Research Consulting Inc

  • The Entity-Property-Relationship Approach to Statistics: An Introduction for Students - pdf
  • Eight Features of an Ideal Introductory Statistics Course - pdf

WEB Center for Social Research Methods - WMK Trochim, Cornell

The Little Handbook of Statistical Practice (G Dallal, Tufts)

  • list - British Medical Journal: Statistics Notes

Understanding the Fundamentals of Epidemiology: An Evolving Text (18 chapters as PDF files - V. Schoenbach, U North Carolina) - TOC pdf

Course Materials:

Other Stuff:

Chance Database (materials for an introductory probability course)

Pathobiology 640 Introduction to Conservation Medicine and Ecosystem Health (U Ill)

  • Conservation Medicine: Ecological Health in Practice Amazon
  • Ecosystem Health: Principles and Practice Amazon
  • Ecosystem Change and Public Health: A Global Perspective Amazon

Mission Critical (D. Mesher, San Jose State University - on-line tutorial in critical thinking and reasoning)

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Epidemiology & Evidence-Based Medicine Center Web-sites:

American College of Epidemiology
American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine
ASPH - Association of Schools of Public Health

Australian College of Veterinary Scientists

BEME Collaboration - Best Evidence Medical Education

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

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).

CEBM - Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (Oxford)

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"

CONSORT - Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials

EBVMA - Evidence-based Veterinary Medicine Association

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

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

epidemiology history:

Sir Bradford Hill

Hippocrates:

John Snow:

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

Evidence Based Decision Making (GS Doig, U Sydney)

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, pdf)

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

I.D.W.L Infectious Disease Weblink: An Infectious Disease Specialty Supersite (links)
http://webpages.charter.net/deziel/

Introduction to Evidence-Based Medicine (on-line tutorial, Duke University, University of North Carolina)
http://www.hsl.unc.edu/lm/ebm/welcome.htm

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

KDnuggets (Data mining website - links to on-line resources)
http://www.kdnuggets.com/

Medical Geography - The Geography Site

Medical Geography
http://www.geog.le.ac.uk/cti/med.html

Mathematical Epidemiology
http://www.mathepi.com/

Netting the Evidence: A ScHARR Introduction to Evidence Based Practice on the Internet (Andrew Booth - huge list)
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~scharr/ir/netting/

Core Library for Evidence Based Practice
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~scharr/ir/core.html

NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (Univ. York)
http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/welcome.htm

Public Health Knowledge (links - I Buchan, UK - dead? 4/04
http://www.public-health.com/

PublicHealth.ResearchEasy.com
http://publichealth.researcheasy.com/

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

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

The EBM Shepherd

The Wisdom Center (registration required - online informatics courses, reference materials)
http://www.wisdomnet.co.uk/default.asp

  • Evidence Based Practice - index
  • Wisdom Library Catalogue (A resource for primary care professionals to support lifelong learning, continuing professional development and evidence-based practice)

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

University of Washington Health Links

Academic Course Materials:

A Scientific Look at Alternative Medicine (TJ Wheeler, U Louisville School of Medicine)
http://biochemistry.louisville.edu/education/altmed.htm

Practice-Based Learning Project (EBM) - University of Minnesota
http://meded1.ahc.umn.edu/mededdocs/courses_y34/PCC/ebm_project/index.cfm

Evidence-Based Health Care Information Resources/Databases
http://courses.lib.umn.edu/page.phtml?page_id=441

Wikipedia

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Biostatistics Web-sites:

On-line texts:

American Statistical Association (ASA) Section on Statistics in Epidemiology (SIE)
http://www.csm.ornl.gov/asasie/

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

Bayes:

Bureau of Transportation Statistics Statistical Policy and Research
http://www.bts.gov/programs/statpol/

Guide to Good Statistical Practice
 http://www.bts.gov/programs/statpol/btsguide.html

categorical data:

COE 502: Introduction to Quantitative Methods (Arizona State University on-line statistics course with includes links to other materials)
http://seamonkey.ed.asu.edu/~gene/502/home.html

datasets:

Diagnostic Test Evaluation

Elementary Statistics Interactive (on-line exercises with hotlinks to on-line reading materials at different sites for each)
http://math.uc.edu/~brycw/classes/147/blue/topics.htm

Exact-stats (mail list, archives, files)
http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/exact-stats/

Excel

Excel Functions: an index
http://www.meadinkent.co.uk/excel.htm

Functions & Data Analysis Tools (Univ of Kansas)
http://www.ku.edu/acs/docs/wkshop/excel-fdat.pdf

Expert Health Data Programming, Inc.
 http://www.ehdp.com/

GraphPad

Interactive Statistical Pages

John C. Pezzullo's Home Page (Georgetown U Medical Center)
http://members.aol.com/johnp71/index.html

Journal of Statistics Education (on-line 93 - 98 archives)
http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/toc.html

Logistic Regression (PA 765: Quantitative Research in Public Administration - NCSU)
http://www2.chass.ncsu.edu/garson/pa765/logistic.htm

Math Archives: Topics in Mathematics (Links)
 http://archives.math.utk.edu/index.html

MathSoft (MathCAD)
http://www.mathcad.com/

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

Milo Schield Statistical Literacy (Augsburg College)
http://www.augsburg.edu/ppages/~schield/

modeling:

MPlus (Structural equation modeling)
http://www.statmodel.com/mplus/index.html

National Research Center for Statistics and the Environment (U. Washington)
http://www.nrcse.washington.edu/

STRUTS: Statistical Rules of Thumb
http://www.nrcse.washington.edu/nrcse/struts/struts.html

Power and Precision (sample size software; downloadable demo version)
http://www.powerandprecision.com/

Probability Theory As Extended Logic (on-line papers, Larry Bretthorst, Washington Univ.)
 http://bayes.wustl.edu/

programming:

Python.org

Recursive Partitioning Website (T. Lim, U Wisc)
http://www.recursive-partitioning.com/

Resampling Stats

  • Introduction to Programming with Resampling Stats and Statistics101 with Applications to Probability and Statistics (John Grosberg, pdf)
  • Resampling: The New Statistics (on-line text, Julian Simon, 1997) - TOC

Resources for Methods in Evaluation and Social Research
http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods/

SAS

simulation:

STATA
http://www.stata.com/

StatGraphics Internet Statistical Computing Center
http://www.sgcorp.com/index.htm

Statistical Rules of Thumb - TOC

Statistics.Com (listing of statistical software, statistical short courses)
http://statistics.com/

Statistics on the Web (C Helberg)
http://www.execpc.com/~helberg/statframes.html

Statistics101 (Java program running "Resampling Stats" language

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

Statistics: The Study of Stability in Variation (UCLA on-line statistics textbook)
http://www.stat.ucla.edu/textbook/ (dead 6/04)

StatPrimer (Version 6.2 - B. Burt Gerstman, San Jose State U)
http://www2.sjsu.edu/faculty/gerstman/StatPrimer/

Statistix for Windows (Analytical Software - free trial download)
http://www.statistix.com/home.html

STROBE: STrengthening the Reporting of OBservational studies in Epidemiology

SURFSTAT Australia   (The University of Newcastle - includes links, on-line introductory course, glossary and text materials)
http://www.anu.edu.au/nceph/surfstat/surfstat-home/surfstat.html

SURV2: Relative Survival Analysis Program
http://www.cancerregistry.fi/surv2/
http://www.pauldickman.com/surv2/

TechProf (New Mexico State University)
http://www.nmsu.edu/techprof/

UnifyPow (A SAS Module/Macro for Sample-Size Analysis, R O'Brien, Cleveland Clinic Foundation)
http://www.bio.ri.ccf.org/UnifyPow/

Washington Statistical Society Methodology Seminars
http://www.science.gmu.edu/~wss/methods/index.html

WISE (Web Interface for Statistics Education - Claremont College)
http://acad.cgu.edu/wise/

Wikipedia

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On-line Government Data Sources and Websites:

Animal Health in Australia
http://www.aahc.com.au/

The National Animal Health Information System (NAHIS)
http://www.aahc.com.au/nahis/index.htm

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
http://www.cdc.gov/

Center for Animal Health Monitoring (CAHM - USDA)
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/vs/ceah/cahm/

Community Health Status Indicators Project (Health Resources and Services Admin, HHS)
http://www.communityhealth.hrsa.gov/

FedStats (US Federal statistics contributed to site by federal agencies)
http://www.fedstats.gov/search.html

French Sentinel System
http://www.b3e.jussieu.fr/sentiweb/en/sommaire.html

Health Canada Disease Surveillance On-Line
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hpb/lcdc/webmap/index.html

National Institute of Standards Statistical Reference Datasets
http://www.nist.gov/itl/div898/strd/general/main.html

NCI SEER (National Cancer Institute Surveillance, Epidemiology & End Results)
http://www-seer.ims.nci.nih.gov/

NCI SRAB (Statistical Research and Applications Branch)
http://www-dccps.ims.nci.nih.gov/SRAB/

PAHO - Pan American Health Organization

Statistical Resources on the Web (University of Michigan Documents Center)
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stats.html

UK National Statistics
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/

USDA

US General Accounting Office (GAO - investigative arm of Congress)
http://www.gao.gov/

WHO World Health Reports (annual)
http://www.who.int/whr/1999/en/whr95-98.htm

WHO Statistical Information System
http://www.who.int/whosis/

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On-Line or Downloadable Computer Programs:

Bayesian Analysis Tools (Predictive Value Calculator)
http://www.intmed.mcw.edu/clincalc.html

Boston College Department of Economics Statistical Software Components (many downloadable STATA modules)
http://ideas.uqam.ca/ideas/data/bocbocode.html

CART (demo - recursive partitioning software, Salford Systems
http://www.salford-systems.com/products-cart.html

CLIVE (Computer-aided in Learning In Veterinary Education)

Win Episcope
http://www.clive.ed.ac.uk/winepiscope/

CMDT (Computational methods for diagnostic tests)
http://city.vetmed.fu-berlin.de/~mgreiner/CMDT/cmdt.htm

EPIDAT (Epidemiological Analysis of Tabulated Data - PAHO)
(old URL: http://www.paho.org/english/hda/hdaepidn.htm)

EpiData (data entry and documentation - Lauritsen, Bruus, Myatt)
http://www.epidata.dk/

Epi-Info Home Page (Free software for data management and epidemiologic analysis)
http://www.cdc.gov/epiinfo/

Epi Tools (Excel 2000 - CC Aragaki, U Texas)
http://www2.utsouthwestern.edu/publichealth/Aragaki/Epitools.htm

EPIZOO:  Software for use in Veterinary Public Health and Animal Disease Control
http://www.who.int/emc/diseases/zoo/epizoo.html

Fearn
http://www.fearn.com/

McNemar's Paired Sample Test Sample Size and Power
http://www.fearn.com/McNemars.htm

Free Public Health Software (written by Mark Myatt)
http://www.brixtonhealth.com/software.html

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
http://members.aol.com/johnp71/javasta2.html

GoPower (general power analysis program - shareware)
http://www.psychologie.uni-trier.de:8000/projects/gpower.html

GraphROC for Windows: Tools for clinical test evaluation
http://members.tripod.com/refstat/

Interactive Statistical Pages

Lawrence Joseph: Bayesian sample size software

MedCalc 3000 (on-line medical calculations)
http://calc.med.edu/

NetEpi: Free, open source, network-enabled tools for epidemiology and public health practice (Tim Churches)
http://www.netepi.org/

OpenEpi - Open Source Epidemiologic Statistics for Public Health

PEPI : Statistical Programs For Epidemiologists (JH Abramson, Hebrew Univ)
http://www.sagebrushpress.com/pepibook.html (current v. 4.0)
http://www.usd-inc.com/pepi.html (old v. 3.0)

PEPI-for-Windows (WINPEPI) - Brixton Health

Prophet Software
http://www-prophet.bbn.com/

Northwestern University FTP Site: ftp://ftp.basic.nwu.edu/Prophet/ftp_this/

PS: Power and Sample Size (Dupont and Plummer, Vanderbilt)
http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/prevmed/ps.htm

Public Domain Software for Epidemiological Analysis - DOS and Windows (UCLA School of Publi Health)
http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/software.html

R Project for Statistical Computing (freeware language and environment for statistical computing and graphics that is similar to S)
http://www.r-project.org/

Resampling Stats (trial version on-line)
http://www.resample.com/

ROC Analysis (software; Ben Herman, University of Chicago)
http://www-radiology.uchicago.edu/krl/toppage11.htm

Nine downloadable programs for ROC analysis

Russ Lenth's Power and Sample-size Page (U. of Iowa, Excel add-in, Java applets)
http://www.stat.uiowa.edu/~rlenth/Power/index.html

SEER*Stat 2.0 (SEER Scientific Systems - National Cancer Institute)
http://seer.cancer.gov/ScientificSystems/

StatPages.net (JC Pezzullo, Georgetown U)

Free Statistical Software
http://members.aol.com/johnp71/javasta2.html

SURV2: Software for Relative Survival Analysis
http://www.cancerregistry.fi/surv2/

Survey Toolbox (software for planning, conducting and analyzing animal health surveys)
http://www.ausvet.com.au/surveillance/toolbox.htm

The BUGS Project
 

UML - Unified Modeling Language

Vanderbilt Medical Center

W3MCSim

Win-SSize (KC Lun, Nat Univ Singapore, sample size, statistical power estimation - Beta test site)
http://www.health1.nus.edu.sg/winssize/ - (link dead 8/23/01)

Zhang, H (Yale Univ. - software)
http://peace.med.yale.edu/pub/

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Other On-Line Materials:

The World-Wide Web Virtual Library:

Hardin MetaDirectory of Internet Health Resources (U Iowa)
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/index.html

International Medical Libraries on the Web (web ring)
http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=medlibring&list

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

Martindale's The Reference Desk

THE "VIRTUAL" - PUBLIC HEALTH CENTER
http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/HSG/PHealth.html

A History of Public Health in South Carolina (M Learner, S Carolina Dept of Health and Environmental Control)
http://www.scdhec.net/co/elsa/publichealth/

American Medical Association

Finding and assembling the best Evidence
http://www.ama-assn.org/sci-pubs/amnews/net_98/nwkg0420.htm

Extended reference to the concepts and resources
http://www.ama-assn.org/sci-pubs/amnews/net_98/nref0420.htm

Diffusion of Information in Medical Care
http://www.ama-assn.org/sci-pubs/amnews/net_98/phelps.htm

Anatomy of an Epidemic
http://library.advanced.org/11170/

An Inventory of Knowledge and Skills Relating to Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
http://views.vcu.edu/commed/ATPM-MDComptencies.html

APHA - American Public Health Association

  • List of Schools of Public Health

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/

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

Bibliografia sulla qualità 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

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/

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

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)

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

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)

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

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

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

Overview of Computer Intensive Statistical Inference Procedures (P A Kelly)
http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/~pkelly/resampling.html

Pitfalls of Data Analysis (or How to Avoid Lies and Damned Lies) (C Helberg)
http://www.execpc.com/~helberg/pitfalls/
http://www.vims.edu/~david/pitfalls/pitfalls.htm

Preventive Veterinary Medicine (searchable journal website with links to all abstracts since March, 1992)
http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/prevetmed

ProMED (Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases - listserver and other information)
http://www.promedmail.org:/pls/promed/promed.home

Postings for the current month
http://www.promedmail.org/pls/promed/promed.searchhtml.pmedtoday

(Old) http://www.promedmail.org:8080/promed/promed.folder.home
  http://www.fas.org/promed/

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

Ralph R. Frerichs (UCLA School of Public Health)
http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/faculty/frerichs.html

References about the quality of medical information (Links to on-line sources)
http://www.irfmn.mnegri.it/oncocare/it/qualita.htm

Reporting on Risk: A Journalist's Handbook on Environmental Risk Assessment
http://www.facsnet.org/report_tools/guides_primers/risk/main.html (dead link)

Senn, Stephen
 http://www.senns.demon.co.uk/Consult.htm

Statistics and Statistical Graphics Resources (Michael Friendly, York University)
http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/StatResource.html

Statistics.Com (extensive links to software, databases)
http://www.statistics.com/

Statistics Newsgroups Search Function
http://statistics.com/newsearch.html

Statistics Education - Online Statistical teaching materials (Juha Puranen, Univ. Helsinki)
http://www.helsinki.fi/~jpuranen/links.html

Statistics on the Web (Clay Helberg) 
http://www.execpc.com/~helberg/statistics.html

Statistics Resources on the Web
http://www.stats.gla.ac.uk/ltsn/links_stats.html (new)
http://www.stats.gla.ac.uk/cti/links_stats/index.html (old)

Student Guides and Student Tools (Tim Menzies)
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~timm/pub/guides/guides.html

How to read a research paper (Tim Menzies)
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~timm/pub/guides/reading.html

Supporting Evidence-based Practice in Critical Care (A. Randolph, Harvard)
http://www.intensivecare.com/

Task Force for Veterinary Science

Teaching Inference about Proportions Using Bayes and Discrete Models
http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v3n3/albert.html

UNC-CH Academic Technology and Networks Software Documentation (student instruction sheets)
http://help.unc.edu/documentation/

Microsoft Software Documentation
http://help.unc.edu/cgi-bin/getindex?doctype=Desktop&platform=Windows&type=html

University of Cambridge Public Health Page
http://fester.his.path.cam.ac.uk/phealth/phweb.html

University of Texas Statistical Services FAQ
http://www.utexas.edu/cc/faqs/stat/

US Federal Judicial Center Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence (for Federal Judges - downloadable sections)

Reference Guide on Epidemiology
Reference Guide on Toxicology
Reference Guide on Survey Research
Reference Guide on Statistics
Reference Guide on Multiple Regression

Veterinary Public Health - WHO (S Broll, Hannover)
http://www.veterinary-public-health.de/home_e/inhalt_e/frameset_e.htm

Workshop on Epidemiologic Methods and Approaches for Food Safety (Oct. 18-19, 2000)
http://vbms.unl.edu/wills/Epiconf/toc.pdf

World Bank Public Health Surveillance Toolkit
http://survtoolkit.worldbank.org/

Ulcer story:

Humor:

Blogs and other evolving sources:

Blogs: Listservs

Wikipedia:

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