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Epi Info™ 6
for DOS
Current Version 6.04d
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Epi Map 2
for DOS
Current Version 2.01a
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Epi Info™ 6
Epi Info™ 6 is a series of microcomputer
programs for handling epidemiologic data in questionnaire format and for
organizing study designs and results into text that may form part of
written reports. A questionnaire can be set up and processed in a few
minutes, but Epi Info™ also can form the basis for a powerful disease
surveillance system database with many files and record types. It includes
features used by epidemiologists in statistical programs, such as SAS or
SPSS, and database programs like dBASE. Unlike commercial programs,
however, Epi Info™ may be freely copied and given to friends and
colleagues.
- Epi Info™ 6 allows rapid setup of new entry forms
and data files, easily customized data entry, and many data management
and analysis techniques.
- Epi Map 2 displays counts or rates on geographic maps
supplied or drawn on the screen. Colors, shading, dots, or
noncontiguous cartograms can be used to show any type of numeric data
related to map boundaries.
- Do Epi is a series of educational studies and
computer exercises designed to teach both epidemiology and the use of
Epi Info™. An instructor's module is included.
Epi
Map™ 2.01a
Epi
Map is a program for IBM-compatible microcomputers that produces and
displays maps from geographic boundary files and data values entered from
the keyboard or supplied in Epi Info or dBASE
files. The data may be
counts, rates, or other numeric values. In Color/Pattern
maps, the values are represented as shading or color patterns for each
geographic entity. In Dot Density
maps, randomly placed dots proportional in number to the values are placed
in each entity. Epi Map also produces Cartograms,
in which the value for each geographic entity is allowed to control the
size of the entity. Thus, a state or country will be small on the map if
the value being represented (e.g., cases of AIDS) is small, but large if
the number is large.
Outline
maps are supplied with Epi Map and others can be created or edited within
Epi Map. They consist of a series of numbers representing the coordinates
of the entities in the map. These entities--countries, provinces, states,
counties, cities, or buildings are all polygons with complete boundaries,
a number of vertices, and names recorded in a special format in the
boundary (.BND) file.
Version
2
of Epi Map contains two major enhancements
. It provides a complete system, including a small programming
language, for creating "point-and-click" information systems, in
which selecting a region on a map will display various types of
geographically related information. The
displays include text with hypertext features, other maps, and records in
Epi Info data files. It also
uses Random Access Memory above the DOS 640 K limit, allowing the use of
larger and more detailed boundary files.
Epi Map is
designed to work independently or as a companion to Epi Info
, a system of computer programs for public health work that is available
in the public domain (Dean AG, Dean JA, Coulombier, D, Brendel, KA, Smith,
DC, Burton AH, Dicker RC, Sullivan, K, Fagan, RF, Arner, TG. Epi Info, Version 6: a word processing, database and
statistics program for epidemiology on IBM-compatible microcomputers.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia,
U.S.A., 1995).
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