Art of the experiment

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| What do snarks, gooney birds, Mona Lisa and the scientific method have in common? Find out in this synthesis of fine art with experimental design and statistical analysis. The cdrom computer software is for high-school through college university students in biology, statistics, psychology, math, sociology, journalism and anthropology. An ideal teaching resource for online education, web-based learning, e-learning, and distance learning for topics of scientific method, research methodololgy, statistical analysis.
- Author: Symynet Educational Software
- Price: Commercial
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First Bayes

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| A teaching package for elementary Bayesian Statistics
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StaTutor

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| StaTutor version 1.24. A teaching package for statistics. Uses a simulation approach to teach statistical concepts. Good, fairly serious stuff.
- Author: Robert Wolfe
- Price: Freeware
- Platform: Dos, Win 3.1/95/98/NT
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ModStat

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| Over 200 statistical tests and routines
- Author: R. C. Knodt
- Price: Freeware
- Platform: DOS,Windows
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Epi-Info

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| Epi-Info is a set of programs for handling epidemiological data in questionnaire format and for organizing study designs.Includes many statistical analyses. Also includes sub-packages for time series analysis, display of epidemiological data on maps, tutorials and tutorials on statistical epidemiology. If you need a free statistical package that will run on a low-spec machine this is not bad. Probably not for beginners
- Author: CDC
- Price: Freeware
- Platform: DOS. May run under windows
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Capsules

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| Nice little utilities designed to perform particular applications: 1) Differential diagnosis of ascites, 2) What method precision is needed given dose interval and half-life, 3) Differential diagnosis of Fe deficiency anaemia, 4) Chi Squared test, 5) Non-linear Interpolation
- Author: Dr M Holland, Wolverhampton, UK
- Price: Freeware
- Platform: Win 3.1 or Win 95
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Analyse-It!

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| A General & Clinical Laboratory statistics addon for Microsoft Excel. Download 14 day trial. Includes procedures to compare the accuracy and precision of methods, double-check methods against a manufacturer's claims, evaluate diagnostic test performance, and calculate reference ranges
- Author: Analyse-it software Ltd.
- Price: Commercial software, free 14 day trial
- Platform: Windows. Needs MS Excel
Note: The download button will take you to another site to download the free 14 day trial version.
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PVDT

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| Small utility computes predictive values of positive and negative test results conditional on the test accuracy (sensitivity and specificity) and prevalence of the disease. Provides estimates of a true prevalence rate (Rogan-Gladen estimator) (39K)
- Author: Dr Matthias Greiner
- Email: mgreiner@vetmed.fu-berlin.de
- Price: Free
- Platform: DOS. Works under Windows
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TG-ROC

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| TG-ROC is a MS-EXCEL template for selection of cut-off values and definition of intermediate ranges for quantitative diagnostic tests. Requires MS-EXCEL (v. 5.0 or 7.0). There are better utilities for ROC analysis but this is a nice template
- Author: Dr Matthias Greiner
- Email: mgreiner@vetmed.fu-berlin.de
- Price: Free
- Platform: MS-Excel
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Stats help file

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| Brief but sensible overview of medical statistics for beginners. In windows help file format.
- Author: Allan Palmer and William F Perry
- Price: Free (donation appreciated)
- Platform: Windows help file (Win 3.1 or higher)
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