An approach for modelling multiple correlated outcomes in a network of interventions using odds ratios

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 2275-2287

  Efthimiou, Orestis ^a   Mavridis, Dimitris ^a,b   Cipriani, Andrea ^c,d   Leucht, Stefan ^e   Bagos, Pantelis ^f   Salanti, Georgia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bayesian; Between study correlation; Correlated outcomes; Mixed treatment; Within study correlation

Indexed keywords

ARIPIPRAZOLE; ASENAPINE; CARBAMAZEPINE; GABAPENTIN; HALOPERIDOL; LAMOTRIGINE; LITHIUM; OLANZAPINE; PALIPERIDONE; PLACEBO; QUETIAPINE; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROATE SEMISODIUM; ZIPRASIDONE;

ACCURACY; ACUTE MANIA; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA SYNTHESIS; DRUG EFFICACY; EFFECT SIZE; EXPERT INFORMATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION; LOG ODDS RATIO; MANIA; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MULTIPLE OUTCOME NETWORK META ANALYSIS MODEL; NETWORK META ANALYSIS MODEL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); TREATMENT RESPONSE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; ODDS RATIO; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BAYES THEOREM; BIPOLAR DISORDER; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ODDS RATIO; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84899926019     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.6117     Document Type: Article

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