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Closing the Gap between Methodologists and End-Users: R as a Computational Back-End
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The R environment provides a natural platform for developing new statistical methods due to the mathematical expressiveness of the language, the large number of existing libraries, and the active developer community. One drawback to R, however, is the learning curve; programming is a deterrent to non-technical users, who typically prefer graphical user interfaces (GUIs) to command line environments. Thus, while statisticians develop new methods in R, practitioners are often behind in terms of the statistical techniques they use as they rely on GUI applications. Meta-analysis is an instructive example; cutting-edge meta-analysis methods are often ignored by the overwhelming majority of practitioners, in part because they have no easy way of applying them. This paper proposes a strategy to close the gap between the statistical state-of-the-science and what is applied in practice. We present open-source meta-analysis software that uses R as the underlying statistical engine, and Python for the GUI. We present a framework that allows methodologists to implement new methods in R that are then automatically integrated into the GUI for use by end-users, so long as the programmer conforms to our interface. Such an approach allows an intuitive interface for non-technical users while leveraging the latest advanced statistical methods implemented by methodologists.
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Palaiodimou, L., Eleftheriou, A., Katsanos, A. H., Safouris, A., Magoufis, G., Spiliοpoulos, S., Velonakis, G., Vassilopoulou, S., de Sousa, D. A., Turc, G., et al. (2023) · Journal of Clinical Medicine · doi:10.3390/jcm12072617 · Cited by 8
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“Statistical analysis was conducted with the open-source software OpenMeta Analyst (Brown University; Providence, Rhode Island, USA).(25) ORs were used to evaluate the association between KC and diabetes.”
Pulmonary Rehabilitation in Noncystic Fibrosis Bronchiectasis
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“Quality assessment of all the observational studies was done by using the Newcastle-Ottawa reference scale [8].”
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Association between genetic variants in DICER1 and cancer risk: an updated meta-analysis.
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“The proportion of surgeons reporting pain for the two modalities in each study were compared using a risk ratio analysis in OpenMeta[Analyst] [21], stratified by the regions of the body.”
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Meta-analysis of the likelihood of FOXC1 expression in early- and late-stage tumors
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“10, a free, cross-platform, open-source program.(27) Weighted average of efficacy was calculated”
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“Revman 5.4 and OpenMeta analyst [32]were used for the study analysis.”
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“All analyses were performed using OpenMeta Analyst Software, version 10.10 (Wallace et al., 2012).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Wallace, B. C., Dahabreh, I. J., Trikalinos, T. A., Lau, J., Trow, P., & Schmid, C. H.
- Affiliations
- Tufts University (US)
- Venue
- Journal of Statistical Software
- Publisher
- Foundation for Open Access Statistic
- Published
- 2012
- Volume
- 49
- Issue
- 5
- ISSN
- 1548-7660 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2120771911
- Cited by
- 1,125
- References
- 27
- Citations by year
- 2026: 50 · 2025: 89 · 2024: 115 · 2023: 105 · 2022: 127 · 2021: 143 · 2020: 133 · 2019: 94 · 2018: 76 · 2017: 68 · 2016: 65 · 2015: 37 · 2014: 17 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 18.44
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- Journal of Statistical Software (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Data Analysis with R
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Scientific Computing and Data Management
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
- Keywords
- R, meta-analysis software, graphical user interface, Python, open source software, software integration, statistical software development, non-technical users
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