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This talk will describe StatTag, an open source and free plug-in for conducting reproducible research and creating dynamic documents using Microsoft Word and Stata, SAS, or R. StatTag was developed to address a critical need in the research community: there were no broadly accessible tools to integrate document preparation in Word with statistical code, results, and data. Popular tools such as knitR and Markdown use plan text editors. Despite the merits of these programs, Word is ubiquitous for manuscript preparation in many fields, such as medicine, in which conducting reproducible research is increasingly important. We developed StatTag to fill this void. StatTag provides an interface to edit statistical code directly from Word, and allows users to embed output from that code (estimates, tables, figures) within Word. This output can then be individually or collectively updated in one-click with a behind-the-scenes call to the statistical program. With StatTag, modification of an analysis no longer entails re-copying results in to a manuscript or table. This talk will provide an introduction to using StatTag, including worked examples.
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