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Reproducible, flexible and high throughput data extraction from primary literature: The metaDigitise R package
[article]
2018
bioRxiv
pre-print
1. Research synthesis, such as meta-analysis requires the extraction of effect sizes from primary literature. Such effect sizes are calculated from summary statistics. However, exact values of such statistics are commonly hidden in figures. 2. Extracting summary statistics from figures can be a slow process that is not easily reproducible. Additionally, current software lacks an ability to incorporate important meta-data (e.g., sample sizes, treatment/variable names) about experiments and is
doi:10.1101/247775
fatcat:6u74capdrzfqxn2a5rtmp24ht4