Instructive examples for inspiration to EpiData users | |||||
Order of files according to categories. Download counts since June 16th 2004 in [ ]. Publications from the examples are shown here | |||||
Basic Example - first The "first example" files (QES/REC/CHK) used as example in EpiTour and Short overview documents. |
View 15.Mar 2006 (3 Kb) [34166] |
Download 16.Jun 2004 (1 Kb) [19743] | |||
Relate example - Clinical Study with four forms Working example of the structure for a Clinical study with a start, then by relating on id entering data into basic person information, sideeffects, status information and pre-study level. |
Instruction 12.Nov 2007 (1 Kb) [16972] |
Download 23.Dec 2008 (10 Kb) [16109] | |||
Relate example - Household, Person, Visit Working example of Household - Person - Visits based on Epi Info example file. |
View 16.Jun 2004 (33 Kb) [17126] |
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Relate example - Multilevel, Village, Family, Person - Nutritional survey of region in Burkina Faso |
View 16.Jun 2004 (604 b) [14783] |
Download 16.Jun 2004 (80 Kb) [13607] | |||
Relate example - locking relate field A template example where the field used for the relate is locked once a value has been entered. Provided by Louk Meertens, Netherlands. |
Download 16.Jun 2004 (2 Kb) [12890] | ||||
Multiple Response - entry An example of how to build a data entry file when you have 6 (7) possible responses and you wish to be able to enter any of them in an efficient way. Provided by Charity Jenkins, Australia. |
View 21.Feb 2007 (13 Kb) [13192] |
Download 21.Feb 2007 (2 Kb) [10930] | |||
Read variables in file B during entry in file A The example shows how to copy information from a "lookup" file B into a file A during entry. Three examples copying one, two and three variables by different principles are applied. |
Download 02.May 2006 (9 Kb) [11250] | ||||
Use Radiobutton Variables (Boolean fields) during entry in file A The example shows how to simulate (use) a Boolean type field during entry. The trick to doing this is to create Yes/No fields that cannot be entered using the tab or cursor keys. They can, however, be entered using the mouse. In this example, clicking in one of these fields will toggle the value of the field between "Y" and missing. Provided by J Hockin, Canada. |
Download 08.Sep 2009 (2 Kb) [8448] | ||||
Comment Legal - combine with free values An example of how to combine legal values, e.g. Denmark, France, Cameroun and then be allowed to enter Schwitzerland in the same field. |
Download 16.Jun 2004 (1 Kb) [11476] | ||||
Comment legal recfile - Birds and tick names An example of using the type comment for a Birds and tick names example. It includes three files one is the main file (ticks.rec), a file with scientific names of more of 100 bird species (aves.letter.rec) and another with scientific names of a few tick species (tick.letter.rec). Main file is: Ticks.rec Provided by Jose Arturo (Saludos desde Mexico). |
Download 16.Jun 2004 (8 Kb) [11555] | ||||
Comment legal recfile - Bacteria list An example of getting a text from "comment legal" into a string field by looking up the numerical code in a different REC file. And to get the numerical code into a numerical field based on lookup of text (bacteria name). Provided by by David Raveh, Israel. |
Download 16.Jun 2004 (25 Kb) [11547] | ||||
Repeat with clear on change Shows how to enter data for school and class levels, where school and class are repeated from previous record, but cleared when there is a change (based on a question "same school") |
Download 21.Nov 2008 (924 b) [8435] | ||||
Calculation - percent Percent calculation with decimal points after entry of two integers. |
Download 16.Jun 2004 (952 b) [11764] | ||||
Age - Today Calculate age in years today based on entry of date of birth |
Download 16.Jun 2004 (599 b) [12329] | ||||
Age at day of visit Calculate age in years, months and days based on entry of date of birth and date of a visit |
Download 27.Jul 2007 (1 Kb) [9532] | ||||
Calculation - Week number Calculate week based on entry of a date (works for years 1999-2004) |
Download 16.Jun 2004 (811 b) [10883] | ||||
Calculator - confidence limits Calculate confidence limits for a proportion with EpiData. See also javascript version Provided by Kevin Sullivan, Univ. Emory. USA |
View 16.Jun 2004 (24 Kb) [10430] |
Download 16.Jun 2004 (3 Kb) [10870] | |||
User Defined Functions in EpiData
Define "user defined functions" in chk files. Programmed by S.Mahmud. Two examples:
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General Description 27.Nov 2004 (13 Kb) [42783] |
Source Code & examples 27.Nov 2004 (111 Kb) [43132] | |||
Calculation and validation - cpr number check (in Danish) (Danish: Fil til modulus 11 kontrol). Modulus 11 test of the danish personal registration number. Based on cross-sum of date of birth and a unique ID key a test must egual 0. Otherwise the key is wrong. Can be used to make a key file for unique ID's and cpr number. Provided by Henrik Břggild, Denmark - explanation provided in english. Value label error fixed (nov. 5th 2002) |
View 16.Jun 2004 (25 Kb) [12608] |
Download 16.Jun 2004 (14 Kb) [10910] | |||
Explanation - MOD command Extended explanation on using the MOD command |
View 15.Mar 2006 (2 Kb) [14666] | ||||
What is a ZIP-file? |
Submit more examples
To add examples here send a copy of REC/CHK and QES files to info@epidata.dk
REC files can be without records. Just seeing the REC/CHK files without data from others can be very instructive.
Address and e-mail of provider contained in the zip files, only names and country here (antispam e-mail measure).
How to work with Example files in EpiData ?
- Download the ZIP-file containing the example to a temporary directory/folder (e.g. c:\windows\temp).
- Extract the files in the ZIP-file using an unzip/extractor program.
- Start EpIData and open the example file
ZIP files A ZIP-file is an archive containing one or more single files. Zip files take up less space and are therefore faster to send via internet. They are compressed in size. You must extract the single files in a ZIP-file archive using an extract-program, e.g. tools menu in EpiData