{"id":16,"date":"2020-09-08T15:54:14","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T14:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-library-guide\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2020-09-08T15:54:14","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T14:54:14","slug":"statistical-and-epidemiological-sources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-library-guide\/statistical-and-epidemiological-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"Statistical and Epidemiological Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"snippetBox\">\n<div class=\"showHide showHide-minimal showOpen\">\n<h2 class=\"showHideTitle activeShowHideTitle open mouseOver\">Statistical Software<\/h2>\n<div class=\"showHideContent hideContent\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bettycjung.net\/Statpgms.htm\">Betty C. Jung&#8217;s Statistical Software Sites<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.qsrinternational.com\/\">QSR international<\/a>: website of the market leading software provider for qualitative data analysis: products include Nud*ist, XSIGHT and NVIVO<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spss.com\/\">SPSS<\/a>: web site of the market leading product for analysis of quantitative data\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.datastep.com\/SPSSTraining.html\">SPSS Tutorial<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; developed by DataStep (originally for a course run at California State University, Sacramento), the free step-by-step tutorial can be downloaded in pdf format, and the accompanying data files by ftp. A\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.datastep.com\/Statistical_Selection_Guide.html\">statistical selection guide<\/a>\u00a0to selecting data analysis models and statistical tests is also available<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stata.com\/\">STATA Statistical Software<\/a>: manufacturers of the STATA software<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.statsci.org\/develop.html\">Statistical Packages: Commercial and Shareware<\/a>: from the Australian\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.statsci.org\/index.html\">StatSci.org<\/a>\u00a0site, a valuable source of statistical science sources on the web<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.statsci.org\/free.html\">Statistical Packages: Free<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"showHide_break\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"snippetBox\">\n<div class=\"showHide showHide-minimal showOpen\">\n<h2 class=\"showHideTitle activeShowHideTitle open\">Statistical guides and tutorials<\/h2>\n<div class=\"showHideContent hideContent\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/vassarstats.net\/textbook\/\">Concepts and Applications of Inferential Statistics<\/a>: online textbook<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmlane.com\/hyperstat\/\">Hyperstat Textbook<\/a>: in-depth textbook explaining how to use statistical techniques; part of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/onlinestatbook.com\/rvls.html\">Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinestatbook.com\/rvls.html\">Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics<\/a>: links to simulations, tutorials, case studies and statistical tools developed by David M. Lane; includes simulations and demonstrations of statistical procedures<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.statsoft.com\/textbook\/stathome.html\">StatSoft Electronic Statistics Textbook<\/a>: statistics teaching package developed by StatSoft; includes a statistical\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.statsoft.com\/textbook\/glosfra.html\">glossary<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stats.gla.ac.uk\/steps\/\">STEPS (Statistical Education Through Problem Solving)<\/a>: downloadable (free) modules for teaching statistics in biology and psychology<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/home.ubalt.edu\/ntsbarsh\/stat-data\/Topics.htm\">Topics in Statistical Data Analysis: Revealing Facts from Data<\/a>: developed by Prof. Hossein Arsham of the University of Baltimore<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wise.cgu.edu\/\">WISE (Web Interface for Statistics Education)<\/a>: online teaching package produced by Claremont Colleges in the US<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/x4l.data-archive.ac.uk\/\">X4L &#8211; SDiT (Survey Data in Teaching)<\/a>: teaching and learning materials that aim to teach data literacy at A-level and degree level; makes use of data from the British Crime Survey to illustrate how social science data can be extracted from a dataset, and used in research, or applied to real life problem<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"showHide_break\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"snippetBox\">\n<div class=\"showHide showHide-minimal showOpen\">\n<h2 class=\"showHideTitle activeShowHideTitle open\">Statistical tools<\/h2>\n<div class=\"showHideContent hideContent\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/statpages.org\/\">Interactive Statistics Pages<\/a>: list of resources for performing statistical calculations put together by John C. Pezzullo, Associate Professor in the Departments of Pharmacology and Biostatistics at Georgetown University, in Washington, DC.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/geoconvert.mimas.ac.uk\/\">GeoConvert<\/a>: geographical translation service: place UK postcodes by geographical location or enumeration district using the postcode look-up directories; hosted by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/census.ukdataservice.ac.uk\/\">Census Dissemination Unit<\/a>.<br \/>\nAccess to UK HE researchers is via the UK Federation option; you need to undergo an additional registration step for CDU services<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomizer.org\/\">Research Randomizer<\/a>: this program uses a JavaScript random number generator to perform random sampling or assign participants to experimental conditions<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quantitativeskills.com\/sisa\/\">SISA (Simple Interactive Statistical Analysis)<\/a>: enter values and use the tools to perform specific statistical functions<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielsoper.com\/statcalc\/\">Statistics Calculators<\/a>: another list of free calculators suitable for many statistical processes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"showHide_break\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"snippetBox\">\n<div class=\"showHide showHide-minimal showOpen\">\n<h2 class=\"showHideTitle activeShowHideTitle open\">General resources<\/h2>\n<div class=\"showHideContent hideContent\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.statistics.gov.uk\/default.asp\">National Statistics<\/a>: website for the Government statistical body, National Statistics (formerly Office for National Statistics); provides data, and includes a searchable database of National Statistics products.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.data-archive.ac.uk\/\">UK Data Archive<\/a>: research resource hosted by the University of Essex; it allows people working in the HE sector to search for raw data from a wide range of important health, social science, and economic surveys<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ndad.ulcc.ac.uk\/\">UK National Digital Archive of Datasets<\/a>: preserves and provides access to computer datasets from UK government departments and agencies; aimed at all those with an interest in records of 20th century government decision making and planning, including researchers, social historians<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"showHide_break\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"snippetBox\">\n<div class=\"showHide showHide-minimal showOpen\">\n<h2 class=\"showHideTitle activeShowHideTitle open\">Health care statistics, communicable disease, and epidemiology<\/h2>\n<div class=\"showHideContent hideContent\">\n<h4>Guides and tools<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cebm.net\/index.aspx?o=1023\">EBM Toolbox<\/a>: part of the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine site, this page gives you a number of tools and advice for performing statistical calculations, such pre-test probabilities, numbers needed to treat (NNTs), confidence intervals and likelihood ratios<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\/nichsr\/usestats\/index.htm\">Finding and using Health Statistics &#8211; an Online Study Guide<\/a>: developed by the US\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nih.gov\/\">National Institutes for Health<\/a>, this is a step-by-step tutorial to finding, interpreting and using health data<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quantitativeskills.com\/sisa\/calculations\/random.htm\">Random Number Generator<\/a>: use this tool to help you assign participants in your sample to different arms of a trial<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Resources<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/\">Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)<\/a>: US public health and epidemiological centre responsible for preventing the spread of infectious disease, environmental health, and health promotion\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wonder.cdc.gov\/\">CDC Wonder database<\/a>\u00a0to search for a wide variety of US reports and numeric public health data<\/li>\n<li>See the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/DataStatistics\/\">data &amp; statistics<\/a>\u00a0section of the web site for all the available datasets and statistical products<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/\">National Centre for Health Statistics<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; principal health statistics agency for the US<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/fastats\/map_page.htm\">State and territorial data<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/fastats\/Default.htm\">A-Z of Statistical topics<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/csr\/en\/\">Global Alert and Response<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; a department of the World Health Organisation (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/\">WHO<\/a>) dedicated to monitoring outbreaks of communicable disease worldwide<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/apps.who.int\/globalatlas\/\">Public Health Mapping<\/a>: part of the WHO Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response site, provides GIS data for communicable diseases<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/seer.cancer.gov\/\">SEER, Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results<\/a>: source of information on cancer incidence and survival in the United States; produced by the National Cancer Institute.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/wer\/\">Weekly Epidemiological Record<\/a>: distributed weekly by the WHO, it gives the most up-to-date epidemiological figures for infectious and communicable diseases worldwide<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/topics\/classification\/en\/\">WHO Classification<\/a>: World Health Organisation criteria for disease, disability and health: used for epidemiological reporting processes. Includes:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/classifications\/icd\/en\/\">ICD<\/a>: international classification of diseases<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/classifications\/icf\/en\/\">ICF<\/a>: international classification of functioning, disability and health<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/whosis\/\">WHOSIS<\/a>: the World Health Organisation (WHO) Statistical Information System<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statistical Software Betty C. 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