Desenvolvimento de interfaces gráficas para estatística Bayesiana aplicada à comparação mista de tratamentos

Abstract

Based on the progress made by the pharmaceutical industry, several medications have emerged to combat diseases. These drugs have similar topic effects but with subtle changes in their biochemical structure, thus competition between the pharmaceutical industry becomes increasingly fierce. In order to compare the effectiveness of these drugs, appear different methodologies with the objective of find what would be the best medicine for a given situation. One of the methods studied is the Mixed Treatment Comparision (MTC) whose objective is to find the effectiveness of certain drugs in studies and / or clinical trials that address, even if indirectly, the drugs studied. The use of this methodology is too complex because it requires knowledge of programming languages in statistical environments, beyond the mastery of the methodologies applied to this technique. The main objective of this study is to create a graphical user interface (GUI) that facilitates the use of MTC for users who have no knowledge in programming languages, which is open source and cross-platform. The expectation about this interface is that the use of more comprehensive and advanced techniques is facilitated, moreover, make the teaching about the topic easier for people who do not know the method