SPSS software invoking R software to realize Meta-analysis of diagnostic test accuracy
TAO Yuan
LIU Jun-hua
HE Qian
GUI Yu-liang
FU Wen-jie
WU Jun-yi
ZHANG Chao
NIU Yu-ming
Abstract：To SPSS software is based on an integration of programming and non-programming, and has powerful functions of data processing and plots drawing. The features of simple operation, convenient data loading, brief data processing and plots drawing make it commonly popular in scientific researchers. But SPSS software used to accomplish the Meta-analysis of diagnostic test accuracy (DTA) appears to be imperfect, then R software is usually invoked, so that two respective advantages which SPSS’s professional integration and convenient usage and R’s flexible expansion and abundant pictures painting are fully combined. The article mainly uses a living example to display the way and the process of expanding SPSS’s functions of computational analysis and drawing presentation to realize DTA Meta-analysis by calling R software.
Keywords：SPSS softwareR softwareDiagnostic test accuracyMeta-analysis
Publication Date：2016-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：4( 773-776 )