ABSTRACT
At the beginning of the decade, computer computations were generally still being performed on large, main frame, computers, while today powerful personal computers are used for all but the largest materials. Standard programs have been developed for many fields and the programs are now much easier to use. EPILOG is a comprehensive package for personal computers which contains programs for many of the common analyses used in epidemiology. Especially for case control-studies there are some useful programs here, including exact analyses of fourfold tables and unconditional/conditional logistic regression. The program for logistic regression, for example, is easy to use because it automatically creates indicator variables if these are required. Certain general-purpose packages can also be used for epidemiological analyses. GLIM is another general program package which can be made to carry out many of the epidemiological analyses easily and with flexibility.
