CALCULADORA METANALÍTICA: SOFTWARE PARA METANÁLISE BAYESIANA DE PROPORÇÕES

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Letícia Souza GOMES
Adriano Polpo DE CAMPOS
Carlos Alberto de Bragança PEREIRA
Camila Bertini MARTINS

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Due to the relevance of the use of systematic review and meta-analysis techniques in the acquisition of consistent and reliable information in the different areas of knowledge, this paper presents a preliminary version 1.0.0 of the Calculadora Metanalítica software, developed in languages R and C #, with graphical interface of use, which perform a Bayesian meta-analysis of proportions. The software allows the user to enter the study weights, if desired. In addition to the graph resulting from the meta-analysis, a text file can also be saved that allows completing complements. The steps for installing and using the program are described here. For application of the software is a solution for the prevalence of depressive symptoms  in Brazilian elderly hospitalized in health units of Brazil. At the end, some considerations of the use of the Calculadora Metanalítica are presented.

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GOMES, L. S., DE CAMPOS, A. P., PEREIRA, C. A. de B., & MARTINS, C. B. (2019). CALCULADORA METANALÍTICA: SOFTWARE PARA METANÁLISE BAYESIANA DE PROPORÇÕES. Brazilian Journal of Biometrics, 37(1), 32–40. https://doi.org/10.28951/rbb.v37i1.340
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