Thanks for the advice, Jose. I discovered that the latest version of EpiInfo does not seem to contain the data for this particular tutorial, but version 3.5.4 does, so I downloaded and installed it. I was able easily to extract the rhodoccus data to a plain text file.
Here is a link to a nice collection of plain text data files for use with R. Not all are medical/epidemiological in nature, but I think I can make use of several: http://vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasets/datasets.html I'll be teaching the intro epi course for a new MPH degree program at Binghamton University in Binghamton, NY, US. I've taught family medicine for about 25 years; this will be my first experience with formal teaching of MPH students. Roughly speaking, I plan to use about 90 minutes of each 3-hour weekly class session for the usual, general, principles of epidemiology. I'll use about 45 minutes for a "computer lab" of sorts with R, for practical application of the principles. And about 45 minutes for a substantive discussion of the epidemiology of an important health problem, communicable or non-communicable. I hope the early introduction of R will seque well into their intro stats course that I'll teach second semester. Tentaively, these are the R-related concepts I hope to practice with them: Overview of R Installation of R Saving your R code: why and how R as a calculator. Rate standardization. Data structures, types and levels of measurement Dates and times Tables Analysis of tabular data Introduction to good graphics More analysis of tabular data More on good graphics Data discipline Data sharing Installing and using packages Getting data into R from "the wild" Data wrangling in the tidyverse Getting things out of R Epidemic curves More on good graphics Brief foray into maps and spatial epidemiology We'll see how it all works out! I'd love to hear from others their thoughts or experiences using R in teaching intro epidemiology. --Chris Jose Arturo Farfan wrote: > Hi Chris, > > My sugestion is to download the epi info version3..5.4 from > > https://www.cdc.gov/epiinfo/support/downloads/prevversions.html > > Install that version, and get the data files, and also the old > tutorials are going to be installled. > > I am very interested in your epidemiology class using R. I am trying > to do something similar, but I teach statistisc and epidemiology to > doctors doing the speciality in psychiatry. I have been having > problems founding databases to present examples to them. > > I will appreciate if you can share some information about the approach > you are doing using R. > > Bes wishes and blesings > Jose A. Farfan-Ale > > > > > > 2018-07-21 5:00 GMT-05:00 <[email protected]>: >> Send R-sig-teaching mailing list submissions to >> [email protected] >> >> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-teaching >> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to >> [email protected] >> >> You can reach the person managing the list at >> [email protected] >> >> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >> than "Re: Contents of R-sig-teaching digest..." >> >> >> Today's Topics: >> >> 1. source for rhodococcus nosocomial outbreak data >> (Christopher W. Ryan) >> 2. Re: source for rhodococcus nosocomial outbreak data (Albyn Jones) >> 3. Re: source for rhodococcus nosocomial outbreak data >> (Christopher W. Ryan) >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Message: 1 >> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 11:13:46 -0400 >> From: "Christopher W. Ryan" <[email protected]> >> To: R-sig-teaching <[email protected]> >> Subject: [R-sig-teaching] source for rhodococcus nosocomial outbreak >> data >> Message-ID: <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" >> >> Many moons ago, the US CDC came out with DoEpi, which was computer-based >> instruction in outbreak investigation, using the CDC's Epi Info software. >> >> I recall two instructionally useful cases in DoEpi: the Oswego church >> supper outbreak (a classic!) and a nosocomial outbreak of >> post-sternotomy sternal osteomyelitis with Rhodococcus. >> >> I'd like to use these cases in an intro epidemiology class in a new MPH >> program, but with R. I no longer have my old DoEpi files. I found the >> Oswego church supper data in the R epitools package. Does anyone know if >> the rhodococcus dataset is available somewhere? >> >> Thanks. >> >> --Chris Ryan >> SUNY Upstate Medical University >> and >> Binghamton University >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 2 >> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 09:46:44 -0700 >> From: Albyn Jones <[email protected]> >> To: "Christopher W. Ryan" <[email protected]> >> Cc: R-sig-teaching <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [R-sig-teaching] source for rhodococcus nosocomial >> outbreak data >> Message-ID: >> <ca+3ju8e3ffxwpepehpdwkllyydn6fekxox55kwmmzmqupry...@mail.gmail.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" >> >> Google points me to >> >> New England Journal of Medicine >> <https://www.researchgate.net/journal/0028-4793_New_England_Journal_of_Medicine> >> 324(2):104-9 · February 1991. >> >> and >> >> https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199101103240206 >> >> On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 8:13 AM, Christopher W. Ryan <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Many moons ago, the US CDC came out with DoEpi, which was computer-based >>> instruction in outbreak investigation, using the CDC's Epi Info software. >>> >>> I recall two instructionally useful cases in DoEpi: the Oswego church >>> supper outbreak (a classic!) and a nosocomial outbreak of >>> post-sternotomy sternal osteomyelitis with Rhodococcus. >>> >>> I'd like to use these cases in an intro epidemiology class in a new MPH >>> program, but with R. I no longer have my old DoEpi files. I found the >>> Oswego church supper data in the R epitools package. Does anyone know if >>> the rhodococcus dataset is available somewhere? >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> --Chris Ryan >>> SUNY Upstate Medical University >>> and >>> Binghamton University >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> [email protected] mailing list >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-teaching >>> >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 3 >> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 13:09:12 -0400 >> From: "Christopher W. Ryan" <[email protected]> >> To: R-sig-teaching <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [R-sig-teaching] source for rhodococcus nosocomial >> outbreak data >> Message-ID: <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" >> >> Thanks. I'm looking for raw anonymous data, e.g. a csv file of a line >> listing. >> >> --Chris >> >> Albyn Jones wrote: >>> Google points me to >>> >>> New England Journal of Medicine >>> <https://www.researchgate.net/journal/0028-4793_New_England_Journal_of_Medicine> >>> 324(2):104-9 · February 1991. >>> >>> and >>> >>> https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199101103240206 >>> >>> On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 8:13 AM, Christopher W. Ryan >>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> Many moons ago, the US CDC came out with DoEpi, which was computer-based >>> instruction in outbreak investigation, using the CDC's Epi Info >>> software. >>> >>> I recall two instructionally useful cases in DoEpi: the Oswego church >>> supper outbreak (a classic!) and a nosocomial outbreak of >>> post-sternotomy sternal osteomyelitis with Rhodococcus. >>> >>> I'd like to use these cases in an intro epidemiology class in a new MPH >>> program, but with R. I no longer have my old DoEpi files. I found the >>> Oswego church supper data in the R epitools package. Does anyone know if >>> the rhodococcus dataset is available somewhere? >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> --Chris Ryan >>> SUNY Upstate Medical University >>> and >>> Binghamton University >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>> mailing list >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-teaching >>> <https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-teaching> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Subject: Digest Footer >> >> _______________________________________________ >> R-sig-teaching mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-teaching >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> End of R-sig-teaching Digest, Vol 102, Issue 3 >> ********************************************** > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-teaching > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-teaching
