Other Tools

Format	Author(s)	Title / Description	Date added	Details
	Palisade Europe	@RISK 4.5 Tutorial This online tutorial provides an introduction to @RISK software, including getting started, running a risk analysis, graphing the results, advanced features, and a description of what's new in @RISK 4.5. (more) Publication Year: 2002	Jul 31, 2002
	Lumina Decision Systems, Inc.	Analytica Quanitative modeling tool for working with decision models. Applications include risk analysis, decision analysis, cost/benefit assessment, policy analysis, and more. The software is commercial but a free trial is available for download from this site. (more)	Jun 29, 2004
	Zheng, Junyu, and H. Christopher Frey	AuvTool This software tool, developed for the Office of Research and Development, Environmental Protection Agency, is for use in quantifying variability and uncertainty in quantitative analysis. The tool was presented at the Society for Risk Analysis Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA, in a workshop entitled "Bootstrap Simulation and Two- Dimensional Monte Carlo Simulation: Dealing with Variability and Uncertainty, Mixture Distributions, Measurement Error, and Censored Data." The software is available to download, as is a user's manual, technical documentation, workshop handouts and slides, and a paper entitled "Quantification of variability and uncertainty using mixture distributions: evaluation of sample size, mixing weights and separation between components". (more) Publication Month: February 2002	Jan 17, 2003
	Qualicon, Inc.	BAX® Pathogen Detection Systems Description of products that use polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in testing food for bacteria.	Jul 23, 2002
	Celsis	Celsis Celsis provides systems for the rapid detection of microbial contamination for use in many applications, including the dairy and beverage industries. Among products sold are a fruit juice sterility kit and a system to detect microbial contamination in dairy and dessert products. (more)	Jul 23, 2002
	DHHS, CFSAN, Food and Drug Administration/RTI	Cost of Reformulating Foods and Cosmetics Foods and cosmetics are examples of regulated products which are sometimes reformulated in response to changes in the marketplace or regulatory environment. RTI and the Economics Team at the FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) produced this model, based on the earlier labeling cost model, to help estimate the costs incurred in reformulation due to changes in regulations. The report provides information on the process of reformulation and a description of the underlying assumptions and calculations used in developing the model. Instructions for using the model are in Section 4 of the report. (more) Publication Month: July 2002	Mar 8, 2005
	Campden and Chorleywood Food Research Association Group	CTemp: Centre Temperature Prediction for Packaged Foods Software for calculating temperatures and lethalities in packaged foods undergoing a thermal process and for assessing the effect of process deviations on product safety. (more)	Jun 17, 2002
		Decision Analysis Software Survey Survey of vendors of decision analysis software packages. Includes information on operating systems, applications, user capabilities, pricing, constraints, graphical elicitation techniques, new features, targeted industries, applications, and vendor contact information. (more) Publication Month: October 2004	Nov 29, 2004
	Middleton, Michael R.	Decision Modeling Add-Ins for Excel Information about the TreePlan Decision Tree, SensIt Sensitivity Analysis, and RiskSim Simulation add- ins for Excel.	Dec 7, 2004
	Decisioneering	Decisioneering This organization provides risk analysis software and desktop decision intelligence software tools, including Crystal Ball. (more)	Aug 31, 2001
	Hamrick, Karen	Eating and Health Module (ATUS) This Module (EH Module) of the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) includes statistics on time spent in eating and drinking activities, grocery shopping, and meal preparation for the population age 15 and older and for participants in the Food Stamp Program. Many related resources are also provided on the same page. (more) Publication Date: Wednesday, May 21, 2008	May 30, 2008
	Hamrick, Karen	Eating and Health Module User’s Guide This User’s Guide provides detailed guidance to researchers on how to use the EH Module to measure time use and eating patterns. (more) Publication Date: Wednesday, May 21, 2008	May 28, 2008
	Bechtel Jacobs Company LLC	Empirical Models for the Uptake of Inorganic Chemicals from Soil by Plants This report presents models on the uptake of contaminants from the soil by plants. Most of the study data is based on agricultural crop plants. Contaminants studied include arsenic, cadmium, copper, lead, mercury, nickel, selenium, and zinc. (more) Publication Date: Wednesday, September 23, 1998	Aug 26, 2002
	Lumenaut Ltd.	Excel Risk Add-In Monte Carlo risk, decision tree and statistical add-in software for Excel.	Jul 4, 2005
	DMST, OSAS, CFSAN, Food and Drug Administration/RTI	FDA Labeling Cost Model An update to RTI's 1990 labeling cost model to better meet the FDA's current needs in estimating labeling costs. The report, entitled "FDA Labeling Cost Model: Final Report," includes background information, discussion of the revised cost estimates used in the model, a description of the assumptions and calculations used, and instructions for using the model. The model and instructions are downloadable. Software requirements: Stata and Microsoft Excel. Acknowledgement: With special thanks to the Economics Team in FDA-CFSAN, Office of Scientific Analysis and Support, Division of Market Studies. (more) Publication Month: January 2003	Feb 20, 2003
	Australian Food Safety Centre of Excellence	The Food Safety ToolKit™ Software package for implementing a food safety strategy designed for small and medium sized businesses or teams in larger businesses. Includes support for developing a food safety policy, an Approved Supplier Management Program, a GMP program, and HACCP. (more)	Jul 20, 2004
	Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture	Foodborne Illness Cost Calculator Tool for estimating the costs of illness for selected foodborne illnesses. Assumptions used in the estimate may be changed to reflect the desired scenario. ERS calculated costs are also given, and the assumptions used in calculating these costs may be examined. (more)	Jun 5, 2003
	Food Safety Risk Analysis Clearinghouse	FR-Analytica listserv Discussion forum to share ideas and experiences using Analytica software, especially as they apply to the areas of risk analysis. While the focus is food safety, risk analysts in other fields should not be discouraged as many problems encountered in risk analysis can cut across different subjects such as transportation, nuclear energy, environmental risks, etc. (more)	Jan 6, 2005
	GoldSim Technology Group LLC	GoldSim: Making Better Decisions in an Uncertain World Company that provides decision-making software, training, and consulting services.	Dec 7, 2004
	Campden and Chorleywood Food Research Association Group	HACCP Documentation Software Software for conducting a HACCP study. Includes flow diagram generation, decision tree analysis, and more. The program is designed for PCs running Windows 95 or above or Windows NT. (more)	Jun 17, 2002
	Foodboss, LLC	HAS: HACCP Audit SuiteTM Software for HACCP system management.	Nov 5, 2004
	Industrial Safety Integration	Industrial Safety Integration Provider of safety training and distributor of CIRSMA risk assessment software, a tool for evaluating and reducing risk associated with machine hazards and occupational health and safety. (more)	Jul 15, 2005
	Vose Consulting	ModelAssist Risk analysis training software package for users of @RISK or Crystal Ball. Several editions are offered, including industrial versions that focus on microbial and antimicrobial food safety applications. (more)	Sep 13, 2004
	Scientific Panel on Plant Health, Plant Protection Products and Their Residues, European Food Safety Authority	Opinion of the PPR Panel Related to the Default Q10 Value Used to Describe the Temperature Effect on Transformation Rates of Pesticides in Soil (Question No EFSA-Q-2005-058) Opinion adopted on February 8, 2006 with recommendations for use of the Q10 approach currently used in the EU to measure the rate of pesticide degradation in the soil. (more) Deadline: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 Publication Date: Wednesday, March 15, 2006	Mar 15, 2006
	Palisade Corporation	Palisade Palisade's decision analysis software includes the DecisionTools Suite: @RISK, TopRank, PrecisionTree, BestFit, and RISKview. Functions performed by these programs include risk analysis, Monte Carlo simulation, sensitivity analysis, creating decision trees and influence diagrams, fitting data to distributions, and solving optimization problems. (more)	Aug 31, 2001
	Evett, Matthew	PARKA: A System for Massively Parallel Knowledge Representation Ph.D. dissertation (1994) on PARKA, a frame-based knowledge representation system implemented on massively parallel hardware. (more) Publication Year: 1994	Aug 31, 2001
	Palisade Europe	PrecisionTree Tutorial This online tutorial provides an introduction to PrecisionTree software, including setting up a tree, influence diagrams, analyzing a decision model, and advanced techniques. (more) Publication Year: 2002	Jul 31, 2002
	Fujitsu Services	Project Risk Management Software Directory Directory of risk management software packages. Publication Date: Wednesday, March 12, 2003	May 8, 2002
	Applied Biomathematics	RAMAS Risk Calc Tool for probability bounds analysis, fuzzy arithmetic, and interval analysis.	Nov 29, 2004
	Australian Food Safety Centre of Excellence	Risk Ranger Food safety risk calculation tool. It can be used to determine relative risks from various product, pathogen, and processing combinations and to explore the effects of risk-reduction strategies. (more)	Jun 13, 2005
	Palisade Europe	RISKOptimizer Tutorial This online tutorial provides an introduction to RISKOptimizer, including building a model, additional options, running an optimization, the RISKOptimizer Watcher, and advanced features. (more) Publication Year: 2002	Jul 31, 2002
	RiskWorld, Tec-Com Inc.	Risk-Related Software Listing of software related to risk analysis.	Nov 22, 2004
	Ivanciuc, Ovidiu, et al.	SDAP: Structural Database of Allergenic Proteins - Food Allergens "SDAP is a Web server that integrates a database of allergenic proteins with various bioinformatics tools for performing structural studies related to allergens and characterization of their epitopes". (more)	May 10, 2005
	Parallel Understanding Systems Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland	SHOE Tool for web page annotation.	Aug 31, 2001
	Parallel Understanding Systems Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland	SHOE Knowledge Annotator Tool for marking-up web pages with SHOE (Simple HTML Ontology Extensions) knowledge.	Aug 31, 2001
	Varela, José Ricardo	Simulación 4.0 Montecarlo simulation tool that was fully developed in VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) and is compatible with Excel 97 and above. Features include 34 random number functions, simulation with the Monte Carlo method, between 1 - 65,000 iterations, integrated menu and toolbar, up to 150 inputs and 20 outputs, easy block of inputs in order to run partial simulations, definition of correlations between inputs, determination of one approximate distribution for a known data series, quick and easy install and uninstall. (more)	Apr 18, 2005
	Machain, Luciano	SimulAr Add-in for Microsoft Excel that is distributed as "emailware". SimulAr adds probability distribution functions in spreadsheets for performing Monte Carlo simulation and risk analysis under uncertainty conditions. Includes the possibility of correlating variables and fitting distributions to data. (more)	Mar 22, 2005
	Institute for Environmental Modeling, University of Tennessee, Knoxville	Spatial Analysis and Decision Assistance: SADA Free software designed to support environmental assessment that includes modules for human health risk assessment, decision analysis, cost/benefit analysis, geospatial analysis, statistical analysis, and more. Documentation and information on an email list for users are available from this website. (more)	Jun 23, 2004
	Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland	Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy (TSE) Risk Project Demonstration of SHOE web-page annotation using TSE transmission as an example.	Aug 31, 2001
	TreeAge Software, Inc.	TreeAge Software, Inc. Company that publishes TreeAge Pro software for decision analysis. The website includes information about their products, training, and more. (more)	Dec 8, 2004
	Mark Walderhaug	TSE Risk Path Analyzer Tool for examining potential exposure pathways of transmissable spongiform encephalopathies.	Aug 31, 2001
	World Health Organization	WHO-CHOICE: CHOosing Interventions that are Cost Effective This page provides information on cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) in support of decision-making that affects health systems. Resources provided include a table of GBD regions for WHO member states, demographic information (including Generic Disease Model, Population, Deaths, and Reproduction Rates, and Health State Valuations), tools to support CEA, background papers, and more. Tools listed include PopMod, a population model that can incorporate two distinct disease conditions, CostIt, software for recording and analyzing cost data, and MCLeague, or Monte Carlo League, which provides stochastic league tables for uncertainty around costs and effects. The tools are either downloadable or available by request. (more)	Jul 25, 2003

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