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imedR: Guarded Evidence Synthesis for the Indian Microplastics Evidence Database
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This paper describes a software tool, called imedR, built to work with a database of Indian microplastics research. The tool checks data quality and stops studies from being incorrectly combined when they used different measurement units, materials or methods, and it also offers statistics, charts and mapping features.
A guardrail-first R interface to the Indian Microplastics Evidence Database (IMED). It provides validation, comparability-aware filtering, statistics, meta-analysis helpers, figures, mapping and provenance retrieval, and blocks unsafe pooling across incompatible matrices, units, mass bases and comparability classes.
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