Resources 2018
The
Rochester Epidemiology Project Data Exploration Portal
The Rochester Epidemiology Project (REP) has developed
an interactive online web-based tool to explore patterns of prevalence
and co-occurrence of diseases using data from the expanded REP medical
–records linkage system. In a paper published in April 2018 in
Preventing Chronic Diseases, the REP is described as a rapid, free of
charge method to examine 717 diseases and conditions in a large
mid-western population. The data are expected to be useful to three
classes of users:
1) local communities for understanding the prevalence
of all conditions in the region
2) other communities may use the information as
benchmarks, particularly for rare conditions
3) Investigators can obtain preliminary data when
considering further studies of the co-occurrence of diseases or
when assessing the feasibility of a community-based
trial.
A new version of the data set allows users to choose from among 1,376
characteristics, including diagnosis based medical conditions,
procedures and surgeries, prescription medications, and demographic
characteristics. Users now have more flexibility to explore the
relationships between characteristics.
The portal allows users to choose two characteristics,
to summarize the prevalence of each separately by age and sex, and to
explore the co-occurrence of the two characteristics. In addition,
users are presented with shaded maps to help visualize the prevalence
and co-occurrence of the two selected characteristics across the REP
region.
To access the portal, visit:
https://tinyurl.com/y9zcqjsj
Epidemiology and Statistics Professor Lectures Available Online
David Kleinbaum,
a retired professor at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public
Health, has created a “visual archive” on YouTube that provides a
large collection of narrated video recordings of his course lectures,
multi-media instructional materials, and more.
Kleinbaum retired from Emory in September 2017 after 25 years,
preceded by 21 years at University of North Carolina. Also, he was a
statistical consultant at the Centers of Disease Control in Atlanta
for many years, and authored several textbooks
and published journal
articles on statistical and epidemiologic methods that are
used/referenced worldwide.
Kleinbaum has had a long-time interest in the
development of multi-media instructional materials that promote
active, enjoyable and alternative learning. He began such efforts in
the 1970s culminating in his 2015 electronic multimedia textbook
ActivEpi Web on introductory and higher-level epidemiologic methods,
which is available for free
(http://activepi.herokuapp.com) .
Also,
http://www.activepi.com not only provides details of the unique
features of ActivEpi Web, but also contains freely downloadable
PowerPoint presentations on all topics covered in ActivEpi Web. This
website also contains free access for downloading a Spanish
translation of ActivEpi, which is called ActivEpi Espanol (only for
Windows computers), which can be used for epidemiology instruction
throughout Latin America (and is also sponsored by PAHO).
To access the visual archive on YouTube, search for
David Kleinbaum, click on the name, then click on playlists. The
screen will show you playlists, including the following:
Correlated Data 2016
(video recordings of 10 classes)
Epi Modeling 2015
(video recordings of 20 classes)
Epi Modeling 2016
(video recordings of 10 classes- first half of course)
Introduction to
Biostatistics: Distributions and Inference
(10 narrated
PowerPoint videos) ■
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