EpiData

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EpiData

Developer(s)	JM Lauritsen (coordinator)
Stable release	version 2.0 / 2007
Operating system	Windows (cross-platform version under construction)
Type	Statistical analysis
License	Freeware
Website	www.EpiData.dk

EpiData is a group of applications used in combination for creating documented data structures and analysis of quantitative data.

Overview

The EpiData Association, which created the software, was created in 1999 and is based in Denmark. EpiData was developed in Pascal and uses open standards such as HTML where possible.^{[citation needed]}

EpiData is widely used by organizations and individuals to create and analyze large amounts of data. The World Health Organization (WHO) uses EpiData in its STEPS method of collecting epidemiological, medical, and public health data, for biostatistics, and for other quantitative-based projects.

Epicentre, the research wing of

• Epidata Entry – used for simple or programmed data entry and data documentation. It handles simple forms or related systems
• EpiData Analysis – performs basic statistical analysis, graphs, and comprehensive data management, such as recoding data, label values and variables, and basic statistics. This application can create control charts, such as pareto charts or p-charts, and many other methods to visualize and describe statistical data.

The software is free; development is funded by governmental and non-governmental organizations like WHO.

See also

• Clinical surveillance
• Disease surveillance
• Epidemiological methods
• Control chart

References

External links

• EpiData official site
• EpiData Wiki
• EpiData-list Archived 2021-07-19 at the Wayback Machine – mailing list for EpiData
• World Health Organization STEPS approach to surveillance
• Médecins Sans Frontières Epicentre