BIOSTATISTICS

• Statistics at Square One
• Collection of Biostatistics Research Archive
• MedPage Guide to Biostatistics
• Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE) of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Resources on statistical analysis with R, SAS, SPSS, STATA and M Plus http://stats.idre.ucla.edu/

 

EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE

• Centre  of Evidence-based Dermatology (CEBD) http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/cebd/index.aspx
• Clinical evidence website www.clinicalevidence.com
• Consider joining the collaboration and writing a co-authoring systematic review in your area
  Cochrane Skin Group Welcome Page
• COUSIN https://www.uniklinikum-dresden.de/COUSIN
• Evidence-based dermatology textbook www.evidbasedderm.com

 

EPIDEMIOLOGY

• Epidemiology for the uninitiated (4th edition)
• Epidemiology website of the World Health Organization (WHO)
• Supercourse (Epidemiology, the Internet and Global Health)
• People’s Epidemiology Library (History of Epidemiologic Ideas, Methods, and Concepts)
• ENCEPP – European Network of Centres for Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacovigilance. Guide on methodological standards in pharmacoepidemiology http://www.encepp.eu/standards_and_guidances/methodologicalGuide.shtml
• ISPOR – International Society for Pharmocoeconomics and Outcomes Research. International digest of databases https://www.ispor.org/DigestOfIntDB/CountryList.aspx
• OHDSI – Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics. Open source tools for large scale analytics www.ohdsi.org
• Daggity – an online tool for causal diagrams, also known as Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAG)  http://www.dagitty.net/

 

EPIDEMIOLOGY GROUPS IN RELATED SOCIETIES

• American Dermato-Epidemiology Network (ADEN)
  http://adenet.us
• European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI) Epidemiology Interest Group:
  http://www.eaaci.org/organisation/eaaci-interest-groups/epidemiology-ig/about-us.html
• National Institute for Clinical Excellence (UK)
  http://www.nice.org.uk
• Netherlands Institute of Health Sciences
• British Epidermo-Epidemiology Society (BEES)
• Consider joining this group to promote EBM and dermato-epidemiology
  International DermatoEpidemiology Association (IDEA)
• Global Resource of EczemA Trials
  www.greatdatabase,org.uk
• The UK Dermatology Clinical Trials Network (UK DCTN)
  www.ukdctn.org
• Harmonising outcome parameters for eczema
  www.homeforeczema.org