CDC's Epi Info 2002.

With Epi Info 2002 and a personal computer, epidemiologists and other public health and medical professionals can rapidly develop a questionnaire or form, customize the data entry process, and enter and analyze data. Epidemiologic statistics, tables, graphs, and maps are produced with simple commands such as READ, FREQ, LIST, TABLES, GRAPH, and MAP. Epi Map 2002 displays geographic maps with data from Epi Info 2002.

Epi Info 2002 for Windows retains many features of the familiar Epi Info for DOS, while offering Windows ease-of-use features such as point-and-click commands, graphics, fonts, and printing.

Following are some key features of Epi Info 2002:

* maximum compatibility with industry standards, including

--Microsoft Access and other SQL and ODBC databases;

--Visual Basic, Version 6;

--World Wide Web browsers and HTML;

* extensibility, so that organizations outside CDC can produce additional modules;

* Epi Map, an ArcView[R]-compatible GIS;

* NutStat, a nutrition anthropometry program;

* logistic regression and Kaplan-Meier survival analysis;

* Data Compare, which does double data entry comparison;

* Epi Lock, which protects, encrypts, and compresses Epi Info 2002 data;

* teaching exercises; and

* analysis and import of other file types.

System Requirements are as follows:

* Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4.0, 2000, or XP;

* 32 MB of random access memory (RAM)--more (64 MB minimum) is recommended for Windows NT 4.0, 2000, or XP;

* 200 megahertz processor (recommended);

* at least 50 megabytes of free hard-disk space.

For more information, visit www.cdc.gov/epiinfo/.