WIN EPISCOPE 2.0: improved epidemiological software for veterinary medicine

Recent changes in veterinary medicine have required quantitative epidemiolo gical techniques for designing field surveys, identifying risk factors fair multifactorial diseases, and assessing diagnostic tests. Several relevant techniques are brought together in the package of veterinary epidemiologica l computer software, WIN EPISCOPE 2.0, described in this paper. It is based on Microsoft Windows and includes modules for the design and analysis of f ield surveys, control campaigns and observational studies, and a simple mat hematical model. It provides comprehensive 'Help' screens and should theref ore be useful not only in field investigations but also for teaching veteri nary epidemiology.