Dear all,
The new version is wonderful. I have the oportunity to make a demo at the
begining of this year to a cohort of EPIET fellows. They were using Stata
and when they saw EPiData Analysis doing the, them a draft version yet, of
tables ..... /oa and epicurve. They got completly breath taken
I think Jens deserves all our acknowledge
Pedro
Although there are a few minor bugs, these will usually be very obvious
and only in the unusual situation. My quick testing on favourite
troublesome data sets shows this is a great release.
If you know anyone working on outbreak investigations who has not seen
Analysis, do them a favour and show them how to do the following on the
OSWEGO.REC data:
tab ill cakes vanilla chocolate /oa /ex
gen i onset=(onsettime div 100) + iif(onsetdate = "04/19",24,0)
epicurve onset ill
You will make someone very happy, I'm sure. Many of us working in the
field have been waiting for something as simple as this (I have been
waiting over 25 years). Sure, you could almost do this in EPI6, but only
with a lot of advanced knowledge - and forget the exact test except as
table by table.
Many thanks to Jens & team!!
Jamie Hockin
Public Health Agency of Canada
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The bugs in Chi Square values in stratified analysis of 2x2 tables and
the correlation command error reported today has been solved. Therefore
a first version v2.0 for analysis placed on the general download page.
The work continues solving minor problems only affecting special
situations, such as percentiles with small numbers of observations
(n=10-25) or final adaptation of all help documents to the new options.
Only the general help file has at this point been uploaded. When all of
these points have been settled a general announcement will be made. This
is expected to take 1-2 weeks.
Thanks to many users for testing and commenting.
regards
Jens Lauritsen
EpiData Association
Dear Jens,
After years of hard work you have brought Epi Analysis to the current status. There are almost all the features of EPI6 and much more. Apart from the pending issues you have outlined, I wanted to draw your kind attention to CORRELATE command (build 126). According to the HELP file, correlate var1 var2 [var3 ...], it should work.. When I run this command, the following happens;
table design=box
. CORRELATE V1 V2
Invalid floating point operation
Probably some thing is wrong in the syntax
I am attaching a small sample corr.rec file. Please help.
Waiting for the release of this marvelous software.
With regards,
Dr. Shavinder Singh
Three aspects needs clarification and further exploration :
1 Chi Square values in stratified analysis of 2x2 tables
2 Saving datafiles with "Epi6 naming convention". Only "First Word"
works completely.
3 Percentiles have problems with small numbers of observations
Except for these three problem areas I think all major issues have now
been solved.
The table command syntax has been simplified to:
tables ........ (default) will do stratified analysis or a n*k table.
tables ....... /oa will create a condensed outbreak table with
attack rates and rr
tables ........ /cc a condensed table with odds ratios
tables ....... /fv will do a "first against all other variables",
but currently is limited to 2x2 tables
It is my intention to release current as a "silent starter" for v2. By
silent I mean without a lot of news due to the limitations mentioned
above. A warning is given when the analysis commands (tables, describe,
stattable) affected by the problems are used. I expect the problems to
be solved within about a week or two at most. The reason for the "silent
release" is that some courses are due, which do not use these commands.
What could change my decision of release as is would be strong
disagreement from users on this list. Please discuss, but if no major
concerns show up, the release will happen tomorrow.
regards
Jens Lauritsen
EpiData Association