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SUBMITTER: Lin L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7394478 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lin Lifeng L Chu Haitao H Hodges James S JS
Statistics and its interface 20200101 4
As an extension of pairwise meta-analysis of two treatments, network meta-analysis has recently attracted many researchers in evidence-based medicine because it simultaneously synthesizes both direct and indirect evidence from multiple treatments and thus facilitates better decision making. The Bayesian hierarchical model is a popular method to implement network meta-analysis, and it is generally considered more powerful than conventional pairwise meta-analysis, leading to more precise effect es ...[more]