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Incorporating external evidence on between‐trial heterogeneity in network meta‐analysis

In a network meta‐analysis, between‐study heterogeneity variances are often very imprecisely estimated because data are sparse, so standard errors of treatment differences can be highly unstable. External evidence can provide informative prior distributions for heterogeneity and, hence, improve infe...

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Autores principales: Turner, Rebecca M., Domínguez‐Islas, Clara P., Jackson, Dan, Rhodes, Kirsty M., White, Ian R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6492109/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30488475
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/sim.8044