WMA: Wizard System Architecture for the execution of meta-analysis: A case study applied to verify the efficacy of fluquinconazole in the control of Asian soybean rust

• Autor(a) principal: DELAZERI,BRUNA R.
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: SILVA,SUELYN F. DA, MATOS,SIMONE N., GUIMARÃES,ALAINE M., CANTERI,MARCELO G.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652020000301101
• topic: Bifocal Tree; Hierarchical Information Visualization Technique; Interactive Visualization; R Software

Abstract Meta-analysis is a probabilistic technique that combines results from several studies that approach the same topic and produce a result that sums up the whole. In the agricultural field, it is used to make empirical estimates of efficiency for the development of productivity and economic research on agriculture. Meta-analysis can be applied through software such as R, which is executed through commands, and produces results without providing user interactivity, nor does it reproduce a friendly and easy-to-understand interface. This paper presents the creation of a computer system, the WMA, which aims to simplify the execution of meta-analysis, providing a graphical interface and improves the display of the results through an interactive visualization using the Hierarchical Information Visualization Technique Bifocal Tree. For validation, the meta-analysis was applied in the agricultural area in a case study that grouped studies that used the fungicide fluquinconazole to combat the soybean rust disease, the results obtained through the application of the meta-analysis were analyzed using the WMA proposed tool.