OpenEpi
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| Developer(s) | OpenEpi Development Team |
|---|---|
| Initial release | January 1, 2004[1] |
| Stable release |
3.03a (May 4, 2015) [±] |
| Preview release | none [±] |
| Written in | JavaScript, HTML |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Available in | English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish |
| Type | Laboratory informatics software |
| License(s) | Modified MIT License |
| Website | openepi.com |
OpenEpi is a free open-source epidemiological statistics toolset. The tools are all web-based, programmed in HTML and JavaScript. The toolset can be utilized either from the main website or downloaded and ran from a desktop system.[2]
Product history
In late 2002, Andy Dean — former chief of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Epi Info Development Team — teamed up with Emory University epidemiologist Kevin M. Sullivan to work on replacements for DOS-based epidemiological statistics calculators. The team chose JavaScript as the platform, deeming it as one that at the time offered "the widest distribution and that require[d] the least expensive tools to develop."[1] By early 2003, the duo had enlisted numerous individuals to provide volunteer contributions to the open-source project. On January 1, 2004, the team announced the beta tag assigned to the project was removed and OpenEpi was stable for use, though it's not clear what version number, if any, was associated with that release.[1] On April 24, 2007, the functionality of the toolset moved away from pop-up windows to a "tabbed interface," and a Windows-based installation file was created for it.[3]
In early March of 2008, the development team announced the OpenEpi site had been accessed one million times by users in 155 countries. That same month toolset updates began receiving a public version number, beginning with version 2.2.1.[3] The latest version seems to be 2.3.1, released in June 2011. It's not known if development continues on the toolset.
Features
Features of OpenEpi include[4] :
- hundreds of statistical calculators
- pair-matched analysis
- diagnostic method evaluation
- random number generator
- stratified tables
- screening tests
- ability to save result files
- ability to load demo data from result files
- automatic column and row totaling
Hardware/software requirements
As the toolset is web-based, all that is needed is a JavaScript-enabled web browser.
Videos, screenshots, and other media
Entities using OpenEpi
Further reading
- Sullivan, Kevin M.; Dean, Andrew; Soe, Minn Minn (May–June 2009). "OpenEpi: A Web-based Epidemiologic and Statistical Calculator for Public Health". Public Health Reports: 471–474. PMC PMC2663701. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2663701/.
External links
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "OpenEpi History - Previous News Pages". EpiInformatics. http://www.openepi.com/OE2.3/BriefDoc/History.htm. Retrieved 17 October 2012.
- ↑ "OpenEpi - Using OpenEpi". EpiInformatics. http://www.openepi.com/OE2.3/BriefDoc/UsingOpenEpi.htm. Retrieved 17 October 2012.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "OpenEpi News - What´s New in This Version?". EpiInformatics. http://www.openepi.com/OE2.3/BriefDoc/news.htm. Retrieved 17 October 2012.
- ↑ "OpenEpi - About OpenEpi". EpiInformatics. http://www.openepi.com/OE2.3/BriefDoc/About.htm. Retrieved 17 October 2012.
