Extracting data from figures with software was faster, with higher interrater reliability than manual extraction

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 74, Issue , 2016, Pages 119-123

  Jelicic Kadic, Antonia ^a   Vucic, Katarina ^b   Dosenovic, Svjetlana ^a   Sapunar, Damir ^a   Puljak, Livia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

^b Agency for Medicinal Products and Medical Devices   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Estimation; Extraction; Figures; Graphical data; Software

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA EXTRACTION; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STUDENT T TEST; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA MINING; HUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REPRODUCIBILITY; SOFTWARE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME FACTOR;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA MINING; HUMANS; OBSERVER VARIATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84957928475     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2016.01.002     Document Type: Article

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