Object Record
Book: "Epidemiologic Analysis With A Programmable Calculator" cover
Book: "Epidemiologic Analysis With A Programmable Calculator" preface
Book: "Epidemiologic Analysis With A Programmable Calculator" pag
| Catalog Number | 13.0012.001 |
| Title | Book: "Epidemiologic Analysis With A Programmable Calculator" |
| History |
Written by Drs. Kenneth J. Rothman and John D. Boice, Jr., in 1979, while they were at the National Cancer Institute, who state in their introduction: "Our purpose in writing this book is to present a collection of pocket calculator programs developed to handle the range of analyses that most epidemiologists face routinely....Before the advent of moderately priced programmable pocket calculators, complicated numerical calculations could be accomplished only by relying upon a sizable computer or upon a willingness to plow throgh tedious computations, recording intermediate results along the way. The disadvantages of the large computer are inaccessibility and expense. The pencil and paper approach is often frustrating and unreliable....In the past, the most appropriate analytic procedures for epidemiologic data have often not been applied either because they were too complicated for routine use or not widely known among epidemioligsts." A programmable pocket calculator meant that the epidemiologist could do the work anywhere, even in the field, and at any time. The book had equations for co-hort (follow-up) studies and case control studies. Some of the equations in the book are used today and some are not published anywhere else. The book was geared specifically for the Hewlett Packard HP67 calculator, but later versions of the book encompassed the HP41, 41C, and 41CV. For more information, see the interviews with Drs. Rothman and Boice in the object folders. Also see 13.0013.001 and 002 which are the HP41 calculators. |
| Description | Book with blue cloth cover imprinted with title and "U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare" "Public Health Service" "National Institutes of Health". Inside the cover leaf page is stamped "Environmental Epidemiology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health," with a handwritten "Compliments." |
| Date | 1979 |
| Organizations | NIH; NCI (National Cancer Institute) |
| NIH Property # | none |
| Old NIH Property # | none |
| Serial # | NIH Publication 79-1649 |
| People |
Rothman, Kenneth J. Boice, John D. Jr. Fraumeni, Joseph |