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Veterinary epidemiology: Bayesian analysis software (view source)
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Bayesian analysis is increasingly being used as an analytical technique in epidemiology. The '''[http://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/bugs/ WinBUGS]''' and '''[http://www.openbugs.info/w/ OpenBUGS]''' software packages are commonly used for these analyses, although other statistical packages (such as '''[http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cmm/software/mlwin/ MLwIN]''' are also able to use Bayesian methodology.
Bayesian analysis is increasingly being used as an analytical technique in epidemiology. The '''[http://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/bugs/ WinBUGS]''' and '''[http://www.openbugs.info/w/ OpenBUGS]''' software packages are commonly used for these analyses, although other statistical packages (such as '''[http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cmm/software/mlwin/ MLwIN]''' are also able to use Bayesian methodology.
WinBUGS code for a variety of situations such as diagnostic test evaluation, disease prevalence estimation and disease presence determination can be found at '''Bayesian Epidemiologic Screening Technique (BEST)''' http://www.epi.ucdavis.edu/diagnostictests/home.html <br>
All the programs below are also taken from this site.
'''Bayesfreecalc1''' ''(Determines the posterior probability that the prevalence, in a population of a given size with a given number of positive test positive individuals out of a sample of a given size, truly exceeds some predetermined threshold/cut-off value)'' http://www.epi.ucdavis.edu/diagnostictests/module02.html
'''Bayesfreecalc2''' ''(Determines the required sample size in order to detect pathogen presence, accounting for imperfect diagnostic tests and sampling without replacement)'' http://www.epi.ucdavis.edu/diagnostictests/module02.html
'''BDFree1''' ''(sample size calculation to estimate disease freedom, using Bayesian methodology - same program as Bayesfreecalc2)'' http://www.epi.ucdavis.edu/diagnostictests/software.html
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