[Cdd-commits] r1312 - projects/med/trunk/debian-med/tasks

[CDD Subversion Commit]

Author: tille
Date: Sat Jan 17 20:24:30 2009
New Revision: 1312

Modified:
   projects/med/trunk/debian-med/tasks/epi
Log:
Added r-cran-epi


Modified: projects/med/trunk/debian-med/tasks/epi
==============================================================================
--- projects/med/trunk/debian-med/tasks/epi	(original)
+++ projects/med/trunk/debian-med/tasks/epi	Sat Jan 17 20:24:30 2009
@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
 Task: Epidemiology
 Description: Debian Med epidemiology related packages
  This metapackage will install tools that are useful in epidemiological
- research.
+ research.  Several packages making use of the GNU R data language for
+ statistical investigation.  It might be a good idea to read the paper
+ "A short introduction to R for Epidemiology" at
+ http://staff.pubhealth.ku.dk/%7Ebxc/Epi/R-intro.pdf
 
 Depends: epigrass
 
@@ -106,3 +109,29 @@
  .
  See also: http://sites.google.com/site/medepi/epitools
 
+Depends: r-cran-epi
+Homepage: http://staff.pubhealth.ku.dk/~bxc/Epi/
+License: GPL2+
+Responsible: Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org>
+Pkg-URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debian-med/trunk/packages/R/r-cran-epi/trunk/?rev=0&sc=0
+Pkg-Description: GNU R epidemiological analysis
+ Functions for demographic and epidemiological analysis in the Lexis diagram,
+ i.e. register and cohort follow-up data, including interval censored data and
+ representation of multistate data. Also some useful functions for tabulation
+ and plotting. Contains some epidemiological datasets.
+ .
+ The Epi package is mainly focused on "classical" chronic disease epidemiology.
+ The package has grown out of the course Statistical Practice in Epidemiology
+ using R (see http://www.pubhealth.ku.dk/~bxc/SPE).
+ .
+ There is A short introduction to R for Epidemiology available at
+ http://staff.pubhealth.ku.dk/%7Ebxc/Epi/R-intro.pdf
+ Beware that the pages 38-120 of this is merely the manual pages for the Epi
+ package.
+ .
+ Epi is not the only R-package for epidemiological analysis, a package with
+ more affinity to infectious disease epidemiology is the epitools package
+ which is also evailable in Debian.
+ .
+ Epi is used in the Department of Biostatistics of the University of Copenhagen.
+