Senn2013: Network meta-analysis in diabetes

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Network meta-analysis in diabetes

Description

Network meta-analysis in diabetes comparing effects of a number of drugs on the HbA1c value.

These data are used as an example in Senn et al. (2013) and have been preprocessed for use in R package netmeta.

Format

A data frame with the following columns:

TE	treatment effect
seTE	standard error of treatment effect
treat1	treatment 1
treat2	treatment 2
treat1.long	treatment 1 (full treatment names)
treat2.long	treatment 2 (full treatment names)
studlab	Study label

Details

Treatment labels provided by columns treat1 and treat2 have been abbreviated:

• acar = Acarbose

• benf = Benfluorex

• metf = Metformin

• migl = Miglitol

• piog = Pioglitazone

• plac = Placebo

• rosi = Rosiglitazone

• sita = Sitagliptin

• sulf = Sulfonylurea

• vild = Vildagliptin

Full treatment names are available in columns treat1.long and treat2.long.

Source

Senn S, Gavini F, Magrez D, Scheen A (2013): Issues in performing a network meta-analysis. Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 22, 169–89

See Also

netmeta

Examples

data(Senn2013)
head(Senn2013)

# Example using netmeta():
# example(netmeta)

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