If you wish to analyse longitudinal data sometimes it is helpful to plot each experimental subject’s data at each timepoint to get a feel for the patterns or trends. You can often learn more from this raw data than a boxplot or line graph of the means. I am a habitual SPSS user but […]
Entries Tagged as 'Medical'
Producing Spaghetti Plots using R
April 6th, 2007 by James · 7 Comments
Tags: Software · Open Source · Medical · R statistical computing · Graphics
How to add a Free Medical Spell Checking Dictionary to Word/Firefox
February 26th, 2007 by James · 2 Comments
Spell checking medical documents can be a real pain. My spelling at the best of times is atrocoius atrocious. Luckily most software, even browsers now support spell checking. The problem is now getting hold of a good medical dictionary to use with your application. Now e-medtools.com a site which specialises in medical spell checking, […]
Tags: Software · Open Source · Medical · Free
Pedigree drawing software
February 13th, 2007 by Mark · No Comments
Pedigrees are essential when documenting large complex families with inherited disease. I spend a lot of time looking after families with a variety of inherited neurological disease, and have spent a similar amount of time trying to find decent software to make this work easier!
I last did a systematic search for software last year. […]
Tags: Research · Software · Open Source · Medical
Tracking Journal Articles with Google Reader
February 13th, 2007 by James · 1 Comment
Keeping up to date in your speciality is always a challenge, but this can become far easier by creating customised dynamic pubmed searches conviently summarised in Google Reader. In this article I will show you how to easily create a feed for your favourite subjects, journals and authors.

