Treatment comparisons for decision making: Facing the problems of sparse and few data

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 177, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 259-279

  Soares, Marta O ^a   Dumville, Jo C ^a   Ades, A E ^b   Welton, Nicky J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Elicited evidence; Evidence synthesis; Mixed treatment comparison; Network meta analysis; Observational studies; Randomized controlled trials evidence; Sparse data

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891901802     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/rssa.12010     Document Type: Article

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