Descriptive statistics

Descriptive statistics, frequency histograms and transformations
Confidence intervals for means, proportions & rates
Critical values from the Normal and t distributions
Reference interval estimation
Dose rate calculator / Constant rate infusion (CRI) calculator

Tools for use in an infectious disease outbreak response

Plots epidemic curve and estimated dissemination ratios
Plot contact tracing data
Plot detection to depopulation intervals (Wada plot)
Create a space-time KML file

Univariable statistics

Measures of association from a 2 by 2 contigency table

Diagnostic test evaluation

Measures of diagnostic test performance from a 2 by 2 contingency table
Pre- and Post-test probabilities (predictive values nomogram)
Betabuster (adapted from Chun-Lung Su's tool to parameterise beta distributions with elicited values)
Gammabuster (tool for parameterising gamma distributions)

Sample size calculations

Sample size to detect disease
Confidence disease has been detected with given sample size
Minimum detectable (design) prevalence with given sample size
Prevalence estimation accounting for clustering
Matched case-control study, with a variable number of controls per case

Deterministic epidemic models

SIR models:
Susceptible-infected-recovered model (vanilla-flavoured)
Susceptible-infected-recovered model with interventions
Susceptible-infected-recovered model with vaccination

Spatial epidemiology

Geocode and map a single address
Geocode and map multiple addresses
Choropleth map by joining xlsx and shp files

Social network analysis (SNA)

Descriptive SNA of an edgelist
Egonet: Plot movements on/off a farm in a network

VE@M course files - click here


Veterinary Epidemiology @ Melbourne