Appendices
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This CD-ROM forms part of the thesis "Melioidosis: epidemiology, pathophysiology and management" by Allen Cheng, Menzies School of Health Research and NT Clinical School, Flinders University (c) 2004.


Contents of CD-ROM
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melioid b.mov 
 Animation of melioid cases and rainfall 
 (Quicktime format - requires Apple Quicktime player: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/)

melioid.avi   
 Animation of melioid cases and rainfall 
 (AVI format - requires Windows Media Player or similar: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ windowsmedia/players.aspx)

appendices.htm
 Navigation page for CD-ROM - should start as autorun CD.

Archived software
 RevMan:  revman42.exe
 SaTScan: sts3.0.5.exe
 ralloc:  ralloc.ado, ralloc.hlp
 GAM:     gam.ado, gam.hlp, gamplot.ado, gamplot.hlp
 ineq:    ineq.ado, ineq.hlp



Contents of .htm file are as follows:
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Appendix A: Incident cases of melioidosis and median monthly rainfall

 Quicktime format (Requires Apple Quicktime)
 AVI format (Requires Windows Media Player or similar)
 

Appendix B: Public domain software used in this thesis:

 Review Manager 4.2 
  RevMan is the Cochrane Collaboration's program for preparing and maintaining Cochrane   reviews. RevMan is currently developed at The Nordic Cochrane Centre. The development is   overseen by the Information Management System Group and the RevMan Advisory Group.

 SaTScan 3.0 
  The SaTScan software has been developed to analyze spatial, temporal and space-time 
  count data using the spatial, temporal, or space-time scan statistics. SaTScan was   developed by Martin Kulldorff (National Cancer Institute, NIH) together with Information Management Systems Inc.

 Stata modules 
  ralloc (Ryan P, Stata module to design randomized controlled trials. Stata Technical      Bulletin 54, 1997) 
  ineq (Cox, NJ, Stata module to calculate measures of inequality. 1999) 
  gam and gamplot (Royston P, Ambler G (1998) Generalized additive models. Stata Technical    Bulletin 42: 38-43.) 

Copies of the above software are archived on this CD-ROM. They were run on a Dell Inspiron 5000 (600 Mhz, 128 MB RAM) running Windows 98, and a Toshiba Satellite Pro TE2100 (2000 MHz, 512 MB RAM) using a Windows XP Professional platform. Stata modules were run on Intercooled Stata 7.0 for Windows.


Links are as follows:
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http://www.cc-ims.net/RevMan/
http://www.satscan.org/
http://ideas.repec.org/c/boc/bocode/s319901.html
http://ideas.repec.org/p/boc/bocode/s365801.html
http://ideas.repec.org/p/boc/bocode/s428701.html


