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© 2021 Broll et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.

Abstract

While their analytical utility is undeniable, a substantial number of CGM metrics summarized in [2] is not available. [...]both packages require the users to have considerable programming experience, which might be a limiting factor for researchers seeking robust and accessible analytical solutions. Furthermore, unlike R, Excel is not a script-based programming language, which makes it less desirable for those users who want to create reproducible scripts for all data processing and metric calculation steps. [...]there remains a need for open-source software that (i) computes most of the CGM metrics available from the literature, and (ii) meets the needs of researchers with varying levels of programming experience. [...]a distinct advantage of iglu over existing open-source CGM software is a point-and-click graphical user interface (GUI) which makes the package accessible to users with little to no R experience. [...]iglu also allows one to assess the reliability of estimated CGM metrics by providing information on the number of days of data collection together with % of time the CGM device was active during those days (% of non-missing measurements).

Details

Title
Interpreting blood GLUcose data with R package iglu
Author
Broll, Steven; Urbanek, Jacek; Buchanan, David; Chun, Elizabeth; Muschelli, John; Punjabi, Naresh M; Gaynanova, Irina
First page
e0248560
Section
Research Article
Publication year
2021
Publication date
Apr 2021
Publisher
Public Library of Science
e-ISSN
19326203
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2507958031
Copyright
© 2021 Broll et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.