Veterinary Epidemiology and Zoonosis

EPIDEMIOLOGICAL CALCULATOR - EPICALC 2000

• EpiCalc is 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.
• EpiCalc was designed and written by Joseph Gilman and Mark Myatt of Brixton Health and is in the public domain.
• EpiCalc is currently in version 1.02 (which fixed a series of minor bugs in earlier versions of the program) and is being developed on an occasional basis.
• EpiCalc functions and references:
• EpiCalc’s statistical functions are split into five main categories. These are,
  • Describe - Descriptive functions
  • Compare - Comparison functions
  • Tables - Analyzing tabular data
  • Sample - Sample size calculations and random number tables
  • Probalility - Repalcements for statistical tables