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EgoNet 0.9 new, third release, build 0.9.3.1, is now available for
download http://www.mdlogix.com/egonet.htm
New features are:
1. More flexible way of accessing multiple databases (selecting
database from inside the application)
2. Exporting alter attribute summary data and adjacency matrices to
Excel (comma separated files)
3. Improved order of alter attributes (sorting and comparison issues)
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History and prior features are:
EgoNetT: Egocentric Network Assessment
In conjunction with Chris McCarty at the University of Florida Survey
Research Center, MDLogix is developing the EgoNET system for
assessing egocentric networks.
Create Egocentric Network Surveys
The EgoNET system includes an application based on MDLogix's
<http://www.mdlogix.com/qbuilder.htm>QBuilder, specially modified to
create surveys that collect information about ego, alters, ego-alter
relationships, and alter-alter relationships.
Conduct Egocentric Network Interviews
Researchers use the EgoNET client to conduct interviews and collect
data. EgoNET displays surveys created in EgoNET QBuilder in
self-report format, and also allows field staff to enter free data
gathered during interviews.
Visualize Egocentric Networks
The EgoNET client contains an embedded version of MDLogix's
<http://www.mdlogix.com/visualyzer.htm>VisuaLyzer application for
network analysis and visualization. After a subject completes a
network survey via self-report, the VisuaLyzer displays the subject's
network as a color-coded interactive graph, showing the alter
characteristics and relationships associated with answers to each
question. The EgoNET VisuaLyzer also calculates network measures such
as node centrality, centralization, and other sub-group analyses.
Field staff can use this information as a basis for further
exploration of the subject's network via interview.
Export Data
Data can be collected by multiple researchers, e.g., using laptops,
and later synchronized to a central database. The EgoNET client can
also output and batch-process summary ego-network data in SPSS format.
Multiple Languages
The EgoNET system is built on the Assessment Architect platform,
which can maintain text in multiple languages for any instrument and
all interface elements. Spanish translations of the EgoNET QBuilder
and client applications are in progress.
The University of Florida Survey Research Center is currently using
the EgoNET system to study network influences on the smoking behavior
of immigrants in Spain.
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Allen Y. Tien, MD, MHS
CEO and Research Director
Medical Decision Logic, Inc.
724 Dulaney Valley Road
Towson, MD 21204
Adjunct Associate Professor
Division of Health Sciences Informatics
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
&
Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Psychiatry
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV
web site address: http://www.mdlogix.com
tel: 410-828-8948 or 410-821-5618
fax: 410-828-8948
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