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Anlytical tools to help with funnel plots, calculation of standardised rates, inequality measures (Lorenz curves), population pyramids, prevalence estimator

I think the two most useful things within this are the inequality measures - with a nice introductory presentation on what Lorenz curves and Gini coefficients are, and the life tables (including standard errors, which are not available in the standard GAD tables which are also bookmarked)

APHO supports joint working across the PHOs to produce information, data and intelligence on people's health and health care for practitioners, policy makers and the wider community. The high quality public health intelligence is central to both local and central government health policy and decision-making. With specialist knowledge and a wealth of information and analytical skills across our network, APHO is able to provide access to a range of national and international public health data, methodological and audit tools. (funnel plots are also included)

Simtools is freeware that adds statistical functions and procedures for doing Monte Carlo simulation and risk analysis in spreadsheets. Note that these add-ins stay with the machine that they are loaded onto, so speadsheets that use these functions will not work on other machines that do not have the add-in.

Economic evaluation database containing over 2,000 citations from January 1, 1980 to December 31, 2008 and continues to be updated. Only includes interventions directed at the paediatric population including neonates, infants, children, or adolescents less than 19 years.

Database of working papers

The ISPOR OUTCOMES RESEARCH DIGEST is an electronic database of research papers presented at ISPOR Annual International Meetings, ISPOR Annual European Congresses, ISPOR Asia-Pacific Conferences, and ISPOR Latin America Conferences from 1998 to date.

Comprehensive database of published economic evaluations - all critically reviewed.

Supporting material for Gray et al, MDM, 2006. Includes links to code and Excel spreadsheets to convert data.

Download page for introductory Bayesian analysis software. It is also useful for fitting distributions to sample summary statistics.

Database of >5,000 ICERs and >7,000 utility weights.

The Public Health Interventions Cost Effectiveness Database (PHICED) is a database of bibliographic records comprising; National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) Guidance and Costing Templates, Cost-Effectiveness Studies and Decision Tools in; Alcohol, Obesity, Physical activity and Tobacco.