Links
Avian Influenza
Avian Influenza (H5N1) - New Zealand Ministry of Health.
Bird flu/avian influenza - latest updates from the OIE.
Foot-and-mouth disease
OIE - alert messages.
Foot-and-mouth disease surveillance (UC Davis).
ProMed.
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
Defra, UK - BSE statistics.
Defra, UK - BSE cases born after the Reinforced Ban 1 August 1996.
OIE - counts of confirmed BSE cases, by country.
CJD statistics - counts of suspect vCJD cases referred to the CJD surveillance unit, Edinburgh.
Collaborators
Atlantic Veterinary College epidemiology and biostatistics group.
Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, Balcarce, Argentina.
University of Guelph, Department of Population Medicine.
Royal Veterinary College, University of London.
Ministry of Agriculture & Forestry, New Zealand.
Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries, Forestry.
Institutions
The Mayo Clinic.
University of Michigan School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology.
Canadian Food Inspection Agency.
Health Canada.
International Research Centre for Veterinary Epidemiology (International EpiLab).
Association of Teachers of Veterinary Public Health and Preventive Medicine.
The Cochrane Collaboration.
American College of Epidemiology.
EpiVetNet - range of links to epidemiological software sites.
Publications
Epidemiology Monitor.
The British Medical Journal.
Preventive Veterinary Medicine.
Epidemiology for the uninitiated - British Medical Journal.
Evidence-based medicine
Bandolier - resource for evidence-based medical information.
Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine.
Clinical Evidence.
Tool Kit for doing CATs - Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group.
National Guidelines Clearinghouse.
Texas Medical Center Library.
JAMA Users' Guides.
PubMed.
Vanderbilt Tutorial on Searching.
EBM calculator for the Palm Pilot - from the Center for Evidence-Based Medicine.
MedMath - a calculator for common formulae used in internal medicine (Palm Pilot).
General
StatSoft Electronic Statistics Textbook.
Bayesian statistics
The BUGS project - software for Bayesian inference using Gibbs Sampling. MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge, UK.
BUGS on the web.
The BUGS discussion list.
Gillian Raab's web page - Napier University.
How to get started with BUGS - Cal State Hayward University.
Lawrence Joseph's web page - simple examples using WinBUGS.
Kevin Murphy - Univeristy of California at Berkeley.
David Draper's website.
Simon Jackman's web page.
Radford Neal's web page.
Matt Hayat's SAS Macros for BUGS.
BayesX - software for Bayesian Inference based on Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulation techniques.
Statistical software
StatLib - Department of Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University - data sets and S-PLUS libraries.
EpiInfo - database management, analysis and wordprocessing; includes StatCalc, EpiTable and Csample.
Survey Toolbox - suite of software programs designed to make planning, conducting and analysing statistically valid, efficient and practical animal health surveys easier.
Rodney Carr's Home Page - range of links and resources. The XLStatistics plug-in for MS Excel is very useful.
NAG software search page
NetLib - archive of mathematics code in C and FORTRAN.
The R Project - For statistical computing.
Brian Ripley's homepage - University of Oxford, UK. S-PLUS and R libraries.
EpiTools - Epidemiology tools on the net.
R mailing list - Archive.
R package: sm kernel smoothing methods: Bowman & Azzalini (1997).
R package: splancs spatial and space-time point pattern analysis functions.
Basic R terminology - Paul Johnson, 2000.
R Tips - tips compiled based upon the most commonly occurring questions on the R mailing list (Paul Johnson, 2000).
Niels Waller's Links for Quantitative Methods - a great site! Useful links to R resources.
Using R for Data Analysis and Graphics - An Inroduction - John Maindonald, Australian National University.
Practical Regression and ANOVA in R - Julian Faraway, University of Michigan.
Free Public Health & Epidemiology Software - Mark Myatt. Myatt's brief introduction to R is a great place to start.
Burns statistics - see the tutorials page for a gentle introduction to R and S.
R graph gallery - excellent site.
Intelact Nutrition Ltd - lifting productivity, driving profitability.
The Dairy Cattle Veterinarians' Society of the New Zealand Veterinary Association.
The American Association of Bovine Practitioners.
Veterinary Medicine Resources - links to North American veterinary sites.
Dairy-L - Internet dairy discussion list.
Cornell University Consultant - stuck for a diagnosis? Give this a try - gives a comprehensive list of references associated with each diagnosis/clinical sign.
WWW virtual library for dairy production - Oklahoma State University, USA.
Animal Science extension page - University of Davis, California, USA.
Dairy cattle resources - Department of Animal Sciences, University of Colorado, USA.
Dairy Herd Improvement Authority - Pennsylvania, USA.
Information Resources for Mastitis - compiled by Mark Varner, University of Maryland, USA.
Mastitis publications - compiled by Mark Varner, University of Maryland, USA.
Centre for Animal Health and Production - University of Pennsylvania, USA.
Incalf workshops - practical advice to improve dairy herd reproductive performance - Victoria, Australia
Information Resources for Mastitis - compiled by Mark Varner, University of Maryland.
Mastitis publications - compiled by Mark Varner, University of Maryland.
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs - foot-and-mouth disease in Great Britain.
NSW Agriculture - nutritive values of feeds.
VEIN - Veterinary Education and Information Network.
Postgraduate Foundation in Veterinary Science.
Dairy Cattle software library - Ohio State University, USA.
DairyCHAMP - University of Minnesota, USA.
Dairy Comp 305 - Minnesota DHIA, USA.
Dairy Cattle software library - University of Maryland, USA.
The Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers - DAISY, UK.
Software and spreadsheet templates from the University of Missouri - USA.
Centre for Animal Health and Productivity - University of Pennsylvania, USA.
Stackyard - Software guide.
UDDER - a decision support model that predicts the milk production of dairy herds grazing pasture under different management systems.
Heavens Above - enter the name of a location and get its exact longitiude and latitude.
HTML guide at the MRC
Tool for specifying colour of HTML pages
TeX Archive
(La)TeX navigator
Post Graduate Foundation in Veterinary Science
Instructions for authors - links to 'instructions to authors' pages for various veterinary journals.
Guide to presentation of theses - Massey University.
mEpiLab - Molecular Epidemiology Public Health Infectious Disease Laboratory at Massey University