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To describe accessible, practical methods and command functions in R software for conducting quantitative syntheses of diagnostic test accuracy data.

March 28, 2019SHILAP Revista de lepidopterologíaOpen Access

Diagnostic test accuracy: application and practice using R software

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SSSung Ryul ShimKonyang University SKSeong‐Jang KimPusan National University Yangsan Hospital JLJong Hoo LeeJeju National University Hospital

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Methodological tutorial demonstrates quantitative diagnostic test accuracy synthesis using R software packages, highlighting accessible meta-analytic workflows for non-statisticians.

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To describe accessible, practical methods and command functions in R software for conducting quantitative syntheses of diagnostic test accuracy data.
Demonstrated univariate and bivariate meta-analytic models using R functions including 'metaprop' and 'metabin' for pooled sensitivity, specificity, and diagnostic odds ratios.
Outlined the application of the 'reitsma' function from the 'mada' package to construct summary receiver-operating characteristic (ROC) curves and 'forest' for forest plots.
Implemented meta-regression via 'metareg' to evaluate study heterogeneity and identify potential moderator effects across target diagnostic evaluations.
Illustrated reproducible analytical workflows for deriving total effect size estimates and conducting formal tests of heterogeneity in diagnostic test evaluations.
Established non-theoretical, practical R software protocols allowing non-statistician researchers to effectively compute diagnostic meta-analytic endpoints.

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Shim et al. (2019) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/699f17d272001a80cc4a1192 https://doi.org/10.4178/epih.e2019007

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Methodological tutorial demonstrates quantitative diagnostic test accuracy synthesis using R software packages, highlighting accessible meta-analytic workflows for non-statisticians.

Diagnostic test accuracy: application and practice using R software

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Diagnostic test accuracy: application and practice using R software

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