Extending DerSimonian and Laird's methodology to perform network meta-analyses with random inconsistency effects

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 819-839

  Jackson, Dan ^a   Law, Martin ^a   Barrett, Jessica K ^a   Turner, Rebecca ^a   Higgins, Julian P T ^a   Salanti, Georgia ^a   White, Ian R ^a  

^a MRC BIOSTATISTICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Method of moments; Mixed treatment comparisons; Multiple treatments meta analysis; Network meta analysis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DERSIMONIAN ANALYSIS; EARDRUM PERFORATION; HUMAN; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; LAIRD ANALYSIS; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NETWORK META ANALYSIS; OTORRHEA; PARAMETRIC TEST; RANDOM INCONSISTENCY; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STUDY DESIGN; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); ARTHRALGIA; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COMPLICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; OTITIS MEDIA WITH EFFUSION; PROBABILITY; PROCEDURES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE PERFORATION; UNCERTAINTY;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ARTHRALGIA; BAYES THEOREM; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; OTITIS MEDIA WITH EFFUSION; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLE SIZE; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE PERFORATION; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84956583945     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.6752     Document Type: Article

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