Nonparametric Bayesian Approach to Treatment Ranking in Network Meta-Analysis with Application to Comparisons of Antidepressants
网络元分析中治疗排序的非参数贝叶斯方法:抗抑郁药比较
Network meta-analysis is a powerful tool to synthesize evidence from independent studies and compare multiple treatments simultaneously. A critical task of performing a network meta-analysis is to offer ranks of all available treatment options for a specific disease outcome. Frequently, the estimated treatment rankings are accompanied by a large amount of uncertainty, suffer from multiplicity issues, and rarely permit ties. These issues make interpreting rankings problematic…