Measuring health and disease: progress in analytical approaches

In this paper, Dr. Martin reviews the progress in analytical approaches used in veterinary medicine between the 1970s and today. The newer applications are used in such activities as monitoring/surveillance, analysis of observational study data, evaluation of tests in the absence of gold standards, the analysis of clustered data (including geographically clustered data) and modeling disease in populations. Future work will be more complex but will demand an increased emphasis on ways to enhance our biological understanding of the results of data analysis and modeling (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.