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spreadsheets  

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  • Spreadsheets are among the most common types of computer software used by people working in epidemiology and public health. When desktop computers were introduced in the late 1970s, the first “killer app” (“killer application,” i.e., the software that everyone wants to have) was the spreadsheet. [Source: Encyclopedia of Epidemiology; Spreadsheet]

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