Automated drawing of network plots in network meta-analysis

Research Synthesis Methods

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 94-107

  Rücker, Gerta ^a   Schwarzer, Guido ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Graph drawing; Graph theory; Network meta analysis; Visualization

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ALGORITHM; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; DECISION MAKING; DIABETES MELLITUS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NETWORK META-ANALYSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SMOKING CESSATION; SOFTWARE; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DECISION MAKING; DIABETES MELLITUS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NETWORK META-ANALYSIS; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; SMOKING CESSATION; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84959302527     PISSN: 17592879     EISSN: 17592887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jrsm.1143     Document Type: Review

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