[R-meta] R package netmeta (version 0.9-6) available
Hi all, R package netmeta, version 0.9-6, is available on CRAN (https://cran.r-project.org/package=netmeta). New features (since netmeta, version 0.9-5): - Prediction intervals can be calculated for treatment estimates from a network meta-analysis - In netmeta(), Q statistics for heterogeneity and design inconsistency are calculated according to Krahn et al. (2013); see help page of decomp.design() - In printouts and forest plots, the reference treatment can be considered as treatment of interest or comparator (default), i.e., either comparisons of reference vs other treatments or other treatments vs reference are reported - Tests for heterogeneity and design inconsistency are shown in printouts - A biplot can be generated to show partial ordering of treatment rankings for more than two outcomes - Additional checks implemented for multi-arm studies: (i) negative or zero treatment arm variances; (ii) duplicate treatment comparisons or incomplete sets of treatment comparisons within a study Reference: Krahn U, Binder H, K?nig J. A graphical tool for locating inconsistency in network meta-analyses. BMC Med Res Methodol 2013;13:35. https://bmcmedresmethodol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2288-13-35 A complete list of changes providing more details is available on https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/netmeta/NEWS. See also https://github.com/guido-s/netmeta. Best wishes, Guido
Dr. Guido Schwarzer (sc at imbi.uni-freiburg.de) Institute for Medical Biometry and Statistics Stefan-Meier-Str. 26, D-79104 Freiburg | Phone: +49 (0)761 203 6668 http://www.imbi.uni-freiburg.de | Fax: +49 (0)761 203 6680