Tim C. Responded: Which set(s) of GCP guidelines is Epidata using as the
goal?
GCP is an abbreviation of "Good Clinical Practice".
The whole issue of GCP guidelines is a difficult one. The preparation in
itself involves reading a lot of " heavy legal text". The major issue is
that the principles are described in lengthy documents, but there is no
strict definition as of what it really implies in terms of specific
implementation (apart from the principles). I will add a summary of the
main documents later.
In the most recent time I have been experimenting with various software
tools for the task:
- bug tracking
- developmental documentation of tasks resolved.
- documentation in general
- testing and verifying software behaviour
- how to accomplish solutions which are operating system independent.
........
To develop all the details of this is going to be a lot of work, which
is why collaborative efforts are crucial. One of the issues is
persontime and funding and another is testing. As soon as I can reveal
more details of the work plan and steps of this process the list will be
informed. And interested persons invited to participate.
Regards
Jens Lauritsen
Hi,
Would anyone be able to help me figure out how I can jump from one field
in a child table to a parent table and back? I have related two files
and depending on how the survey questions are answered, I need to be
able to go from the child file to the parent table and back. It doesn't
seem as if the jump function allows one to jump from one field in one
table to another field in a different (but related) table.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Thao
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CIESIN, Columbia University
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
tel: 845.365.8994
fax: 845.365.8922
http://www.ciesin.columbia.edu
In the preparation for compliance with GCP guidelines and general
handling of the 2006-2010 development plan it is important to document
bugs and issues resolved.
A new bug tracking system is in test.
Anyone who wishes to participate can sign on as reporter at :
http://www.epidata.dk/php/mantis
Following the testing further setup is required before the site will be
operational: e.g.:
definition of categories
definition of projects
definition of maintainers/managers
etc.
It the system is approved, then a cleanup will be made before final and
further usage.
But to me it seems as if the maintenance, running and using of the
system should be easy. A few other options has been considered, but they
seemed to detailed for the purpose.
Kind regards
Jens Lauritsen
EpiData Association
HI, I am trying to run an EpiTable on some basic food exposure data where
1=Ate the food item, 2=did not eat food item. However when I run the
EpiTable it is automatically assuming that the exposure variable is 2 (ie.e
not eating food item). How can I change the exposure variable to 1?
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On april 1st. Shavinder Singh questioned about searching principles
Actually I see the comment as a wish for this:
a. When searching the specification should be done in the same form as
where entry is done instead of using a specific search form.
b. Apart from showing the next record matching the search criteria
all records matching the criteria should be shown in the same
form as with AUTOSEARCH
c. Or as an alternative to b, show one record at a time and find next
one with F3.
Clarification of issues like this will be part of the coming development
plan. Including possible planning a user survey on usage etc.
Comments and views welcomed.
Regards
Jens Lauritsen
EpiData Association
Hello
How is it possible to convert a string to a numeric value in Epidata Analysis. I have tried all the proposed
solutions found on the support list, but the result is always the same 'data type mismach"
I have a string variable like
var1 = GHXXXXX15
And I want to make statitic(median, means ....) on the last part (15) , I can convert to a
numeric value. The function to convert numeric to string exists, but no string to numeric.
Thank you very much
Yves
Yves Dupont
Institut of Public Health
Rue Juliette Wijtsman 14
1050 Bruxelles
Belgium
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Due to the work of Pedro Arias and with some assistance from Juan Carlos
Merino (Peron) the whole website has been translated to Spanish.
Other translations can be placed if someone wishes to translate parts or
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A bit later we will arrange for a news section for the translated
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Good news - funding received - Financing the conversion plan
A first donation of roughly 7000 Euro has been received for the
development plan
from a Danish Medical research fund.
Experimentation with possible principles for implementation of aspects
of "audit trail"
will start soon based on the funding.
I will add a "counter" indicating at all times what percentage of the
plan is currently financed.
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Regards
Jens Lauritsen
EpiData Association
I propose that the principle be established that any appropriate command
will eventually allow weights via /w=varname
To simplify syntax for many users, /sum=varname can be a synonym for
/w=varname on the FREQ command and TABLES command
We do not need separate sumfreq and sumtables commands. I never liked
this in EpiInfo because you had to learn another command syntax and
EpiInfo wasn't know for consistency of syntax.
It is good practice to use the variable name COUNT (in English at least)
whenever dealing with aggregated data. This becomes self documentation.
We do this with an in house system for managing monster national data
sets, but still will get people creating frequency tables that do not
sum the COUNT variable and they wonder why every category has a
frequency of 1
Jamie Hockin
Public Health Agency of Canada