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ArticlePatterns (New York, N.Y.)2024

psHarmonize: Facilitating reproducible large-scale pre-statistical data harmonization and documentation in R.

John J Stephen, Padraig Carolan, Amy E Krefman, Sanaz Sedaghat, Maxwell Mansolf, Norrina B Allen, Denise M Scholtens

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Article in Patterns (New York, N.Y.), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. The Association BetweenNeurology. Genetics · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

John J StephenDepartment of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.
Padraig CarolanDepartment of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.
Amy E KrefmanDepartment of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.
Sanaz SedaghatDivision of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
Maxwell MansolfDepartment of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.
Norrina B AllenDepartment of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.
Denise M ScholtensDepartment of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.

Funding

Dementia Risk Prediction Pooling ProjectR61NS120245 · NINDS · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI ALLEN, NORRINA BAI · 2020 to 2020
$1.6M
NINDS NIH HHS R61 NS120245
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Combining pertinent data from multiple studies can increase the robustness of epidemiological investigations. Effective "pre-statistical" data harmonization is paramount to the streamlined conduct of collective, multi-study analysis. Harmonizing data and documenting decisions about the transformations of variables to a common set of categorical values and measurement scales are time consuming and can be error prone, particularly for numerous studies with large quantities of variables. The

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data harmonizationdata integrationdata managementdata poolingR package

Identifiers

PMID39233692
PMCPMC11368672

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