NEWS.md

In mtrank: Ranking using Probabilistic Models and Treatment Choice Criteria

mtrank, version 0.2-0 (2025-06-03)

Major changes

• New treatment choice criterion (TCC) derived from network estimates replaces TCC derived from individual study results

• Main argument in R function tcc() must be a network meta-analysis object created with netmeta() from R package netmeta

• New R function linegraph() added to plot line graphs

• R package *ggplot2 added to Imports

User-visible changes

• R function paired_pref() renamed to fitted.mtrank()

• Argument 'reference.group' was removed from function mtrank()

• tcc():

• single new argument 'x' replaces arguments 'treat', 'event', 'n', 'mean', 'sd', 'data', and 'studlab'

• arguments 'mcid', 'mcid.below.nukk' ,'mcid.above.null' renamed to 'swd', 'swd.below.null', 'swd.above.null'

• forest.tcc():

• argument 'treat' replaced by 'reference.group'
• new argument 'baseline.reference'
• new arguments 'col.winner' and 'col.tie'
• argument 'fill.lower.equi' replaced by 'fill.swd.below.null'
• argument 'fill.upper.equi' replaced by 'fill.swd.above.null'

Bug fixes

• mtrank():
• use 'method = "BFGS"' internally to avoid errors due to convergence failure

mtrank, version 0.1-1 (2025-02-26)

Bug fixes

• tcc():
• use correct 'no_effect1' and 'no_effect2' values for relative effect measures if argument 'relax = TRUE'

mtrank, version 0.1-0 (2025-01-31)

First version released on CRAN

mtrank documentation built on June 8, 2025, 11:12 a.m.