Ezio Bottarelli, Fabio Ostanello Epidemiologia Teoria ed esempi di Medicina veterinaria Edagricole, Bologna, 2011

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Questo elenco ha lo scopo di indicare agli studenti ed ai professionisti risorse didatticamente utili in tema di epidemiologia (soprattutto veterinaria) e di biostatistica. L'elenco è in costante aggiornamento e non è assolutamente esaustivo.

In lingua italiana

• Il determinismo in medicina.
  Bellelli A., UniRoma
• Glossario di epidemiologia e biostatistica.
  Cuttini M., Di Ciommo V., Ravà L., Tozzi A.E.
• Note introduttive alla statistica medica.
  G. Gilli, G.C. Candini.
• Statistica applicata alla ricerca e alle professioni scientifiche.
  Lamberto Soliani, UniPR
• Sito della Medicina di Laboratorio
  Marco Besozzi
• Aspetti tecnici in nefrologia - Le basi statistiche ed epidemiologiche della medicina clinica.
  Zoccali C. Centro di Fisiologia Clinica del CNR. Unità Operativa di Nefrologia, Dialisi, Trapianto e Ipertensione Arteriosa, Azienda Ospedaliera "G. Melacrino - F. Bianchi-Morelli", Reggio Calabria
• CREV
  Centro Regionale Epidemiologia Veterinaria
• EpiCentro
  Centro Nazionale di Epidemiologia, Sorveglianza e Promozione della Salute
• SIEV
  Sistema informativo per l'Epidemiologia veterinaria, Osservatorio Epidemiologico Veterinario Regione Lazio
• Centro Emiliano Romagnolo di Epidemiologia Veterinaria
  Istituto Zooprofilatico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell'Emilia Romagna "Bruno Ubertini"
• Ministero della Salute

  Repubblica Italiana

• Ministero della Salute
  Dipartimento per la sanità pubblica veterinaria, la nutrizione e la sicurezza degli alimenti
• Istituto Superiore di Sanità
  Sanità Pubblica Veterinaria e Sicurezza Alimentare

In lingua inglese

Siti Web, Corsi e Testi online

• Reference Guide on Epidemiology.
  Green M.D., Freedman D.M., Gordis L.
• Principles of Epidemiology in Public Health Practice.
  An Introduction to Applied Epidemiology and Biostatistics. 3nd Edition. U.S. Dept. Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA.
• Supercourse.
  Epidemiology, the Internet and Global Health
• A Short Introduction to Epidemiology
  N Pearce. 2nd ed., Massey University, New Zealand.
• Epicentre
  Massey University, NZ
• An Introduction to Veterinary Epidemiology.
  M Stevenson. Massey University, New Zealand
• Epidemiology for the Uninitiated
  D. Coggon, G. Rose, DJP Barker. 4th ed.
• EPIZOOTIOLOGY TEXTBOOK
  Principles and Methods, Prof. MVDr. Václav Kouba, CZ
• Handbook of Biological Statistics
  J McDonald. U Delaware
• HyperStat Online Textbook
  DM Lane.
• The Little Handbook of Stastical Practice
  GE Dallal.
• STATS - Steve's Attempt to Teach Statistics.
  Professor Mean" Steve Simon - research biostatistician, Children's Mercy Hospital
• SticiGui
  PB Stark. Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
• Concepts and Applications of Inferential Statistics
  R Lowry Vassar.
• History of Epidemiologic Methods
  Epidemiology.ch
• Principles of Epidemiology: An introduction to applied epidemiology
  2nd ed. - CDC self-study course
• Probability and statistics.
  EBook. UCLA, University of Los Angeles.
• Statistics at Square One
  9th ed. TDV Swinscow, Revised by MJ Campbell, 1997, BMJ Publishing Group
• Studying Populations: A Computer Assisted Learning Package for Basic Epidemiological Methods
  (CD-based, downloadable)
• The Little Handbook of Statistical Practice.
  GE Dallal. Tufts University, Boston.
• Understanding the fundamentals of epidemiology:an evolving text.
  Schoenbach, WD Rosamond, U North Carolina, 2000.
• Veterinary Epidemiology - An Introduction
  D Pfeiffer- Univ London, 2002
• Clinical Epidemiology & Evidence-Based Medicine Glossary
  J Gay, Washington State University
• Epidemiology Concepts for Disease in Animal Groups
  J Gay, Washington State University
• Guide for Herd Problem Investigations
  J Gay, Washington State University
• Guidelines for Assessing Professional Information
  J Gay, Washington State University
• Herd Problem Investigation Resources for Veterinarians
  J Gay, Washington State University
• Introduction to Epidemiology
  J Gay, Washington State University
• Veterinary Medicine and the Philosophy of Science
  J Gay, Washington State University
• Surveillance Manuals - Survey Toolbox for Livestock Diseases
  A Cameron, Australian Center Int. Agric. Res.
• A Dictionary of (Ecological) Epidemiology
  J Swinton, Univ of Cambridge
• A New View of Statistics
  WG Hopkins, AUT University, NZ
• Categorical Data Analysis with Graphics
  Michael Friendly, York Univ.
• VassarStats: Website For Statistical Computation
  R Lowry, Vassar College, NY
• epidemiolog.net
  VJ Schoenbach. U North Carolina School of Public Health
• StatPrimer
  B.B. Gertsman, San José State U
• Online Statistics: An Interactive Multimedia Course of Study
  DM Lane et al.
• STEPS STatistical Education through Problem Solving: Biology Modules. Downloadable modules for statistics training)
• SurfStat Australia
  An online text in introductory Statistics
• Foodborne disease outbreaks: Guidelines for investigation and control
  WHO
• Epidemiology Kept Simple
  Gerstman, San Jose State U
• Web Pages that Perform Statistical Calculations!
  JC Pezzullo, Biostatistics, Georgetown University)
• EIS - Epidemic Intelligence Service - Case Studies
  CDC
• Powerpoint presentations
  CEBM - Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Oxford
• The EBM Toolbox
  CEBM - Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Oxford
• EBVMA
  Evidence-based Veterinary Medicine Association
• EpiVetNet
  (Dirk Pfeiffer, Massey University, New Zealand
• FOCUS on Field Epidemiology
  North Carolina Center for Public Health Preparedness
• Introduction to Evidence-Based Medicine
  On-line tutorial, Duke University, University of North Carolina

Free software / Software sites

• Ministat
  Programma di statistica in italiano (Marco Besozzi)
• WinEPiscope
  Software for quantitative veterinary epidemiology. It is suitable for both the design and analysis of epidemiological studies, and as an aid to the teaching of quantitative epidemiology
• EpiCalc 2000
  Statistical calculator that works with pre-tabulated data. Some of the functions available in EpiCalc will be of general use but they have been chosen to be of interest to persons working with data from a public health or epidemiological context
• EpiData
  Simple or programmed data entry and data documentation.Basic statistical analysis, graphs, and comprehensive data management.
• Epi Info PD
  Public domain suite of software tools designed for the global community of public health practitioners and researchers. It provides for easy data entry form and database construction, a customized data entry experience, and data analyses with epidemiologic statistics, maps, and graphs for public health professionals who may lack an information technology background.
• Epitools
  Epitools (epidemiology tools) is an R package for epidemiologic computing and graphics. R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics
• FP Advisor
  Helps foodborne disease investigation.
• MapWindow
  Geographical Information System Open Source Software
• OpenEpi
  OpenEpi provides statistics for counts and measurements in descriptive and analytic studies, stratified analysis with exact confidence limits, matched pair and person-time analysis, sample size and power calculations, random numbers, sensitivity, specificity and other evaluation statistics, R x C tables, chi-square for dose-response
• SaTScan
  Spatial, temporal and space-time data analysis using the spatial, temporal, or space-time scan statistics..
• StatPages.org
  The web pages listed here comprise a powerful, conveniently-accessible, multi-platform statistical software package
• PEPI-for-Windows (WINPEPI)
  Complete suite of computer programs for epidemiologists designed for use in practice and research in the health field and as learning or teaching aids.
• EpiInfo PLUS
  EpiInfo is a classic public health and epidemiology applicaton. EpiInfo provides powerful and easy to use data-entry and checking functions as well as basic data analysis functions. The version available from this site is the final DOS version of the program and includes two extra applications for performing logistic regression
• EpiCalc 2000
  EpiCalc 2000 is a statistical calculator that works with pre-tabulated data. Some of the functions available in EpiCalc will be of general use but they have been chosen to be of interest to persons working with data from a public health or epidemiological context
• FP Advisor
  FP Advisor allows investigators to consider a wide range of disease possibilities in a foodborne disease investigation
• SampleXS
  Sample size calculator for cross-sectional surveys using simple random, systematic, or complex samples
• SampleRate
  Sample size calculator for calculating sample size requirements to estimate a single rate
• EpiGram
  EpiGram is a program for producing diagrams for inclusion in articles and reports. It is called EpiGram because it was written to create epidemiological contact tracing and social network diagrams for inclusion in outbreak and other epidemiological reports
• Statistical utilities
  set of statistic and epidemiological tools
• FreeCalc
  FreeCalc is an epidemiological probability calculator designed to assist with the planning and analysis of surveys to demonstrate freedom from disease, or surveys to detect disease
• Survey Toolbox
  Survey Toolbox is a suite of software programs which are designed to make planning, conducting and analysing statistically valid, efficient and practical animal health surveys easier. These programs were written for veterinarians in developing countries, but many have uses for anybody involved in planning surveys.
• HerdAcc
  Program for calculating herd (aggregate) sensitivity and specificity for a wide range of values of individual level sensitivity and specificity

Biostatistica

• Introductory Statistics: Concepts, models and applications
  DW Stockburger, Missouri State U
• Online Statistics: An Interactive Multimedia Course of Study
  D Lane, Rice U, Texas
• Statistics: The Study of Stability in Variation
  UCLA on-line statistics textbook)

On-line Government Data Sources and Websites

• EFSA
  European Food Safety Authority
• OIE
  World Organization for Animal Health
• CDC
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA
• USDA
  National Animal Health Surveillance System
• USDA
  National Animal Health Monitoring System
• USDA
  National Surveillance Unit
• USDA
  APHIS VS Centers for Epidemiology and Animal Health
• WHO, World Health Organization
  Regional Office for Europe
• WHO
  Statistical Information System

Other On-Line Materials

• John Snow Website
  This site is devoted to the life and times of Dr. John Snow (1813-1858),