ActivEpi Version 1.1 multimedia CD

Author: David G. Kleinbaum Publisher: Springer Copyright: 2004 ISBN-10: 0-387-21015-6 ISBN-13: 978-0-387-21015-5 Price: $39.00   Available for Windows and Macintosh only See a large photo of the front cover See the back cover Table of contents

Comment from the Stata technical group:

ActiveEpi is an interactive, multimedia, introductory epidemiology course on CD and is organized as an interactive workbook. Students "flip" the pages of the book by clicking on the lower corner. Each page contains a mixture of text and links to instructional videos, example dialogs, and datasets. The "electronic workbook" format makes this ideal for self-study since it allows students to set their own learning pace. After each session, students can save their progress and, upon resuming the course, pick up where they left off.

The technology is innovative and makes the learning experience a lot more fun, and the course materials are first-rate. Even if this course had taken a more conventional form, such as a short course or textbook, it would still be well worth the investment in time and money. All the topics that are vital to a basic knowledge of epidemiology are presented: study designs (including case–control and cohort studies), issues of bias and confounding, the analysis of rates, effect measures, stratified analysis, and others.

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