Selected Chapters from

Data Analysis with Epi Info

www.sjsu.edu/faculty/gerstman/EpiInfo/

July 2000

Prepared for HS267 Students

by B. Gerstman

Filename: C:\DATA\EpiInfo\cover.wpd

Table of Contents

Unit	Materials	No. pp.
–	Cover & Table of Contents	2
Homepage Index: www.sjsu.edu/faculty/gerstman/EpiInfo/	1
1(StatBasics)	Preface	1
Approaches Toward Data Analysis	3
Some Statistical Basics	9
2 (EpiBasics)	Epi Info Version 6 Basics	16
3 (Cont-Pair)	Continuous Outcome, Paired Samples	13
4 (Cont-Two)	Continuous Outcome, Two Independent Samples	11
5 (Bin-One)	Binary Outcome, One Sample	13
6 (Bin-Coh)	Binary Outcome, Independent Samples, Cohort Study	14
7 (Bin-Case)	Binary Outcome, Independent Samples, Case-Control Study	8
8 (Stratified)	Stratified Analysis: Introduction to Confounding and Interaction	16
Abbreviated t / Z Table	1
Total no. pages:	108

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This manual is a printout of selected Chapters from Data Analysis with Epi Info (www.sjsu.edu/faculty/gerstman/EpiInfo). It can be viewed online, but experience suggests that texts like this are best studied in hard-copy form, where the student can highlight, mark-up, and otherwise use the material. However, the online version may be used when the hard-copy is unavailable and is needed to access some links, such as when downloading data files.

Data Analysis with Epi Info was developed for use by a broad range of users – from beginner students to experienced statisticians, from clinical investigators to public health workers, from practitioners in undeveloped economies, such as sub-Sahara Africa and the Soviet Union, to information-based economies such as the U.S. and the European Union. It is a public domain program that may be copied and distributed freely. It is also moving from a well-established DOS version (Epi6) with over 100,000 users to a new Windows version ("Epi2000"). Be aware that as a public domain program, it is likely to be bug-ridden, especially in this early incarnation. However, this presents us with a unique opportunity to help the CDC "beta test" this program. It would, therefore, be helpful to the CDC for us to keep a written list that identifies bugs and incompatibilities, and to keep this list as precisely as possible. Should be interesting.