articleThe Stata Journal Promoting communications on statistics and StataDec 1, 2015Closed access

Network Meta-analysis

IRIan R. White

MRC Biostatistics Unit

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Abstract

Network meta-analysis is a popular way to combine results from several studies (usually randomized trials) comparing several treatments or interventions. It has usually been performed in a Bayesian setting, but recently it has become possible in a frequentist setting using multivariate meta-analysis and meta-regression, implemented in Stata with mvmeta. I describe a suite of Stata programs for network meta-analysis that perform the necessary data manipulation, fit consistency and inconsistency models using mvmeta, and produce various graphics.

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  • Frequentist inference
  • Computer science
  • Meta-analysis
  • Consistency (knowledge bases)
  • Bayesian network
  • Suite
  • Multivariate statistics
  • Data mining
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