MedResearch Suite Stay Curious!

For Students, Residents, Departments, and Institutions

Your statistics, start to finish, on your own machine.

MedResearch Suite picks the right statistical test, runs it, checks the assumptions, and draws the figure your journal expects. Every number is validated against R, and the whole engine runs locally, so your dataset never goes online.

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The MedResearch Suite Meta-Analysis workspace in dark mode, showing a twelve trial forest plot with a pooled effect diamond and heterogeneity statistics.
The Meta-Analysis Workspace, Live Twelve trials pooled with a random effects model. Pooled mean difference −8.14 (95% CI −9.83 to −6.45), I² = 50%. The forest plot, funnel plot, leave one out, and cumulative analyses all come from the same import, and export at 300 DPI.
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statistics cross-checked against R

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workspaces, question to manuscript

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HIPAA identifiers the scanner knows

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It picks the right test

Mark which column is which. The app runs Shapiro-Wilk normality and Levene variance checks, selects the correct test, and tells you why in plain English. When your data breaks an assumption it offers the proper alternative, such as Welch, Firth, or McNemar, instead of quietly handing you the wrong number.

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It never leaves your device

No cloud, no account, no upload. The analysis engine runs on your own computer, and the app works with the network cable pulled out. Patient data has nowhere to go because there is nowhere to send it.

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It agrees with R

Every test in the analysis menu is cross checked against R's gold standard packages, from metafor to survival to pwr. Not approximations of them. The same numbers, to displayed precision.

01 Real screens, real numbers

See it in use.

These are not mockups. Every screen below is the app running on real data, captured live, with the result it actually produced.

The Analytics workspace showing an automatically selected Welch's ANOVA with green assumption check chips and a plain English write up of the result.
Analytics. The Test Chose Itself. A three group dataset went in. The app ran a Shapiro-Wilk normality check on every group, selected Welch's ANOVA on the strength of it, and returned Welch's F(2, 7.9) = 340.35, p < 0.001, η² = 0.984, with Games-Howell post-hoc comparisons and a plain-English write-up you can copy straight into a manuscript. Levene's test is reported too, and here it says the variances agree. Welch is still what runs, because the default does not depend on that holding. No test was chosen by hand.
The Diagnostics workspace showing a ROC analysis with area under the curve 0.901, the Youden optimal cutoff, and sensitivity and specificity.
Diagnostics. Curve and Statistics Together. A raw biomarker column and its true labels produced the ROC curve, an area under the curve of 0.901 (95% CI 0.836 to 0.967), the Youden optimal cutoff at ≥ 4.89, and sensitivity and specificity of 84.4% and 83.6%. Likelihood ratios, predictive values, and Cohen's kappa come with it.

02 The rule, in your hands

Which test would it choose?

This is the decision the app makes the moment you mark your columns, and it is the one most projects get wrong. Tell it what your data looks like and watch it choose. Nothing to download.

1 · What are you comparing?
2 · What does the data look like?
It would run

Welch's t-test

This is where the app starts, not where it stops. Every default above was picked by simulation rather than by habit, and the pattern is the same each time: where the textbook choice depends on an assumption that is easy to break, the app takes the one that does not. That is why a Welch test is the default even when the variances agree, and why the non-normal answers are Brunner-Munzel and the ANOVA-type statistic rather than Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis, which quietly need the groups to share a shape. The familiar tests are all still there when you want them. The app checks the assumptions on your actual data and shows its reasoning, which is the part a flowchart cannot do for you.

03 One tool, whole project

From question to manuscript.

Most projects lose weeks moving between a spreadsheet, a stats package, and a drawing tool. This is all four stages in one place.

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Discovery

Measure what already exists. Search PubMed for the published footprint and ClinicalTrials.gov for the trials already under way, before you commit a year to it.

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Sample Size

Power the study properly before you collect. t tests, ANOVA, proportions, and correlations, including unequal allocation.

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Analyze

Mark your columns. The right test is selected, the assumptions are checked, and the effect size and confidence interval come with the p value.

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Publish

Export figures at 300 DPI in PNG, JPG, TIFF, or SVG, with a plain-English write-up ready for the manuscript.

04 Privacy by construction

Patient data never leaves the device.

The one thing a research tool cannot afford to get wrong, settled by how it is built rather than by what it promises.

There is no cloud, no account, and no upload. The analysis engine runs on your own computer and the app works with no internet connection at all. That is not a policy you have to trust. It is simply how the software is built.

A built in Safe Harbor helper can scan a dataset for the eighteen HIPAA identifiers and hand back a de-identified copy, and the app warns you before any free text you type could ever be sent out.

MedResearch Suite is a research tool, not a certification. It does not by itself make a project HIPAA compliant, and it is not a substitute for a statistician or your institution's review process.

05 Six workspaces

What it does.

The same six workspaces you see in the app, in the same order.

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Discovery

Measure how much has already been published on your question through PubMed, and how many trials are registered or running through ClinicalTrials.gov, with a study type breakdown.

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Sample Size

Power analysis for t tests, ANOVA, proportions, and correlations, with unequal allocation and one sided options.

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Analytics

Automatic test selection with assumption checks, effect sizes, multivariable models, survival, and reliability.

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Meta-Analysis

Forest, funnel, leave one out, and cumulative plots. Fixed, random, HKSJ and modified HKSJ, prediction intervals, Egger, and Begg.

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Diagnostics

2x2 tables, ROC and AUC, likelihood ratios, predictive values, kappa, and a Bayesian probability revision plot.

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Visualizations

Box, violin, raincloud, Bland-Altman, Q-Q, heatmaps, and PRISMA, CONSORT, and STROBE diagrams.

06 Open the drawers

Validated against R.

Ease of use is worthless if the numbers are wrong. Every test in the analysis menu has been run against R's gold standard packages on the same data and compared to displayed precision. Here is exactly what was checked against what. The reference set is base R's stats together with afex, brunnermunzel, car, epiR, FSA, irr, lawstat, logistf, MASS, MBESS, metafor, nnet, pROC, psych, pwr, rankFD, rstatix and survival. Where no R package implements a statistic, the formula is computed directly in R and named as such, never left unchecked.

Group comparisons and post-hoc tests
StatisticChecked against
Welch and Student t testt.test, t.test (var.equal)
One-sample t test against a referencet.test (mu)
Paired t testt.test (paired)
One-way ANOVA, eta squared, omega squaredaov
Welch ANOVAoneway.test
Two-way ANOVA with interaction, Type IIcar::Anova
ANCOVA, Type IIcar::Anova
Repeated-measures ANOVA, partial eta squaredafex::aov_ez
Mauchly sphericity, Greenhouse-Geisser, Huynh-Feldtafex::aov_ez, stats::mauchly.test
Friedman and Kendall's Wfriedman.test
Cochran's QCochran formula in R, stats::pchisq
Mann-Whitney U, exact and tiedwilcox.test
Wilcoxon signed-rankwilcox.test (paired)
Kruskal-Wallis and epsilon squaredkruskal.test
Brunner-Munzel, with a permutation p under 30 per grouplawstat::brunner.munzel.test, brunnermunzel
ANOVA-type statistic on pseudo-ranks, relative effectsrankFD::rankFD
Pairwise Brunner-Munzel, Holm adjustedbrunnermunzel (permutation), p.adjust (holm)
Tukey HSDTukeyHSD
Dunn (tie corrected) and Games-HowellFSA::dunnTest, rstatix::games_howell_test
Levene (Brown-Forsythe) variance checkcar::leveneTest
TOST equivalenceSchuirmann, Welch
Regression and correlation
StatisticChecked against
Pearson correlation with CI, and Spearman's rhocor.test
Spearman exact permutation p (n of 9 or fewer, no ties)cor.test (exact), full enumeration
Kendall's tau-b, tie correctedcor.test (kendall)
Linear regression, slope CI, adjusted R squaredlm, confint
Binary logistic with profile likelihood CIglm, confint.glm
Firth penalized logistic (separation)logistf
Ordinal logisticMASS::polr
Poisson and rate models with offsetglm (poisson)
Negative binomial, alpha and profile CIMASS::glm.nb
Multinomial logisticnnet::multinom
Multivariable linear and logisticlm, glm
Categorical and exact tests
StatisticChecked against
Chi-square with Yates correction, Cramer's Vchisq.test
Fisher exact, conditional OR and exact CIfisher.test
Fisher-Freeman-Halton (larger tables)fisher.test
McNemar, exact binomial and correctedmcnemar.test, binom.test
Cochran-Armitage trendprop.trend.test
Holm and Benjamini-Hochberg correctionp.adjust
Meta-analysis
StatisticChecked against
DerSimonian-Laird pooled estimate and CImetafor::rma (DL)
Hartung-Knapp-Sidik-Jonkmanmetafor::rma (knha)
Modified Hartung-Knapp-Sidik-Jonkmanmetafor::rma (adhoc)
Prediction interval (IntHout t, k-2 df)metafor::rma, IntHout 2016 t(k-2) recomputed
Begg and Mazumdar rank correlationmetafor::ranktest
Egger regressionmetafor::regtest
Diagnostic meta-analysis, pooled Se and Spmetafor (PLO, DL)
Survival and diagnostics
StatisticChecked against
Kaplan-Meier medians and log ranksurvival::survfit, survival::survdiff
Cox proportional hazards, HR and C-indexsurvival::coxph
Competing risks, Aalen-Johansen CIFsurvival::survfit (multi-state)
Clopper-Pearson exact proportion CIbinom.test
Likelihood ratio and DOR intervalsepiR::epi.tests
ROC AUC and DeLong intervalpROC::roc, pROC::ci.auc
Reliability, effect sizes, and power
StatisticChecked against
All six ICC forms with F based CIspsych::ICC
Fleiss kappairr::kappam.fleiss
Hedges' g with noncentral t CIMBESS::ci.smd
Hedges' g for paired differences, with noncentral t CInoncentral t, independently recomputed
Correlation sample sizepwr::pwr.r.test
Unequal allocation t test sample sizepwr::pwr.t2n.test
What the app refuses to do, and where it is stricter than R

Agreeing with R is only half of being right. The other half is declining to answer when the data cannot support the question. Every condition below is detected, explained in words, and covered by its own automated check. R's behaviour on the same data was established by feeding it the same defective datasets, and it is recorded because on this class of problem R is often the weaker party, not the target.

The dataWhat this app doesWhat R 4.6.0 does
Every group holds one repeated value, so there is no spread to measure a difference against Declines, and names the rank test that still answers Reports a result. On twelve identical values aov gives F = 1, p = 0.405, and TukeyHSD gives an adjusted p of 0.047, a significant difference between identical groups, decided by rounding error
A correlation from two points Declines: two points always fall on a line, so the coefficient is 1 whatever the values are Declines
A meta-analysis of a single study Declines Reports a pooled effect and a p-value
A study whose estimate has no confidence interval Declines, naming the study Silently drops that study from the pooled effect, warning only that a study had missing values, so the answer is to a different question
A survival time that is negative, or an event code it does not recognise Declines, naming the column Accepts the negative duration; converts the unrecognised code to missing and drops that subject from the curve
A power calculation asking for power of exactly 1 Declines: it is not attainable with a finite sample Returns a required sample size of one billion
Perfect separation in a logistic regression Detects it exactly, by the linear program that decides whether the estimate exists, and offers Firth's penalized regression with profile-likelihood intervals Reports odds ratios with standard errors in the tens of thousands and p near 1, which is the Wald test breaking down rather than evidence of no effect
A 2x2 table with an expected count below 5 Switches to Fisher's exact test and says so Runs the chi-square and warns that the approximation may be incorrect

Two comparisons are meaningless unless the exact R call is named, and both are named in the harness: cor.test for Spearman on tied data underflows to exactly zero unless asked for the asymptotic form, and psych::ICC defaults to a mixed model that returns a different estimator from the classical one this app implements.

The limits of agreement on a Bland-Altman plot carry an exact confidence interval, from the non-central t distribution, rather than Bland and Altman's 1999 approximation. A coverage simulation against a known population limit, 40,000 samples at each size, puts the approximation at 92.2% at five pairs and 92.7% at eight, where the exact interval holds 95.0% at every size from five to a hundred. Carkeet (2015) reports the same permissiveness below about forty pairs. The approximation is still computed and returned, so a figure made before this change can be reconciled.

07 Who it is for

Built for the people doing the work.

Students and residents

Your first project, without a statistician on speed dial. The test is chosen for you, the assumptions are checked for you, and the write-up is ready to paste.

Departments

Give a whole team a research tool that produces publishable figures, teaches the right test as it goes, and does not create a data governance problem.

Institutions

A portable build runs without admin rights on locked down machines, and nothing anyone analyzes is ever transmitted anywhere.

08 Straight answers

Questions.

How much does it cost?

It is free. No account, no sign up, and no licence key.

Does my patient data leave my computer?

No. There is no cloud, no account, and no upload. The statistics engine runs on your own machine, and the app works with no internet connection. Your dataset is held in memory while you work and is never written to a server, because there is no server to write to.

Is it HIPAA compliant?

That question does not really apply to a tool, and anyone who answers it with a simple yes is overselling. Compliance is a property of your project and your institution, not of software. What the app does is keep the data on your device, ship a Safe Harbor helper that scans for the eighteen identifiers and returns a de-identified copy, and warn you before any free text you type could be sent out. What it does not do is make your study compliant on its own.

Can I install it on a locked down hospital computer?

Yes. Alongside the normal installer there is a portable build. You extract it to any folder you can write to, such as your desktop or a USB stick, and run it. No installation, no administrator rights, no registry changes, and nothing left behind afterwards.

Does it work offline?

Yes, completely, for every analysis. The only features that need the internet are the ones that are about the internet: the literature search in Discovery, which queries PubMed and ClinicalTrials.gov, and the optional AI topic suggestions. Your data is not part of either.

How do I know the numbers are right?

Every test in the analysis menu has been checked against R's gold standard packages on the same data, and matches to the precision it displays. The full list is in the section above. An automated harness re-runs 472 checks, 252 of them comparisons against stored values from R's own packages, and it has to pass before any release, so a change cannot silently break a result. The comparisons are in the repository, so you can run them yourself rather than take our word for it.

Does this replace a statistician?

No, and it does not try to. It removes the mechanical errors, choosing the wrong test, missing an assumption, reporting a p value with no effect size, and it explains what it did in plain English. Study design, confounding, and interpretation still need a human, and anything headed for publication deserves a proper review.

What happens if my data breaks an assumption?

You are told, and you are offered the correct alternative. If variances are unequal it suggests Welch. If a logistic model is perfectly separated it suggests Firth's penalized regression rather than reporting an absurd odds ratio. If your groups are not normal it moves to the nonparametric equivalent. The reasoning is shown, so you can learn the rule rather than just take the output.

What can I export?

Figures export at 300 DPI in PNG, JPG, and TIFF, and as true vector SVG, which is what most journals ask for. Every result also has a plain-English write-up with the effect size and confidence interval, which you can copy to the clipboard and paste into a manuscript.

What data formats can I load?

CSV and Excel files, or you can type and paste directly into the data grid. Meta-analysis and diagnostics have downloadable templates so the column layout is unambiguous, and the importer maps your columns for you.

Which operating systems are supported?

Windows 10 and 11 today, as a 247 MB installer or a 308 MB portable build. A macOS version is in preparation and will be signed and notarized by Apple so it opens without warnings.

Does it use AI, and does that see my data?

There is one optional AI feature that suggests novel research angles, and it is off unless you add your own API key. It only ever receives the search wording you type, never your dataset. Before any text leaves the device, a guard scans it for patient identifiers and blocks it by default until you confirm twice.

Who made it, and can I get it for my department?

MedResearch Suite is built by HariOm S. Vaja. If you would like it running across a department or an institution, including on machines that block installers, get in touch.

09 Get in touch

Bring it to your department.

Rolling it out across a department or an institution, getting it onto machines that block installers, or telling me it got something wrong. All of it reaches the same inbox, and it is read by the person who wrote the software.

Email support@medresearchsuite.com
What helps me help you
  • How many people, and whether the machines block installers
  • The analysis you are stuck on, and what you expected instead
  • For a bug, the exact numbers on screen and what you clicked