Free Statistics Tool for Typing Data. Epidemiological typing has many different applications. Those include surveillance of infectious diseases, outbreak control and others. Often two ore more different typing methods are available. There are several criteria for evaluating the power of typing methods and for comparing different methods. The underlying mathematical formulas are often quite simple, but the handling of the data can get demanding for large data sets. The program Ridom EpiCompare can calculate various criteria for data of different typing techniques. It combines easy calculation with ease of data handling.

Ridom EpiCompare can calculate the following parameters:
1. Typability is the percentage of distinct microbial strains which can be assigned a positive typing marker.
2. Reproducibility is the percentage of strains that give the same result on repeated testing.
3. Discriminatory power of a typing method is its ability to distinguish between unrelated strains. the an important ability of typing systems.
4. Typing system concordance helps to compare different independent typing systems.

The license of this software is Freeware, you can free download and free use this calculator software.