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Central Statist Monitoring (CSM) receives widespread recognition for the contribution to improving data integrity and regulatory compliance in clinical investigations. Although the existing literature offers countless approaches based on fundamental statistical techniques, many of these methods show remarkable limitations and shortcomings.

This web application Introduces a flexible framework for the implementation of CSM by comparing the average values ​​of individual centers with the total Grand Average (GM). The methodology is adaptable to various data types through suitable statistical modeling. Users can upload their data sets and perform these comparisons directly within the app.

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