A comprehensive set of functions providing frequentist methods for network meta-analysis and supporting Schwarzer et al. (2015) <DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-21416-0>, Chapter 8 "Network Meta-Analysis": - frequentist network meta-analysis following Rücker (2012) <DOI:10.1002/jrsm.1058>; - net heat plot and design-based decomposition of Cochran's Q according to Krahn et al. (2013) <DOI:10.1186/1471-2288-13-35>; - measures characterizing the flow of evidence between two treatments by König et al. (2013) <DOI:10.1002/sim.6001>; - ranking of treatments (frequentist analogue of SUCRA) according to Rücker & Schwarzer (2015) <DOI:10.1186/s12874-015-0060-8>; - partial order of treatment rankings ('poset') and Hasse diagram for 'poset' (Carlsen & Bruggemann, 2014) <DOI:10.1002/cem.2569>; (Rücker & Schwarzer, 2017) <DOI:10.1002/jrsm.1270>; - split direct and indirect evidence to check consistency (Dias et al., 2010) <DOI:10.1002/sim.3767>, (Efthimiou et al., 2019) <DOI:10.1002/sim.8158>; - league table with network meta-analysis results; - additive network meta-analysis for combinations of treatments (Rücker et al., 2020) <DOI:10.1002/bimj.201800167>; - network meta-analysis of binary data using the Mantel-Haenszel or non-central hypergeometric distribution method (Efthimiou et al., 2019) <DOI:10.1002/sim.8158>; - 'comparison-adjusted' funnel plot (Chaimani & Salanti, 2012) <DOI:10.1002/jrsm.57>; - automated drawing of network graphs described in Rücker & Schwarzer (2016) <DOI:10.1002/jrsm.1143>; - rankograms and ranking by SUCRA; - contribution matrix as described in Papakonstantinou et al. (2018) <DOI:10.12688/f1000research.14770.3> and Davies et al. (2021) <arXiv:2107.02886>.
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