Table 1.
Data input and network plotting functionality from NMA R packages gemtc, pcnetmeta and netmeta.
Table 2.
Modeling options from NMA R packages gemtc, pcnetmeta and netmeta.
Table 3.
Assumption checking and diagnostic testing functionality from NMA R packages gemtc, pcnetmeta and netmeta.
Table 4.
Inference and reporting tools available from NMA R packages gemtc, pcnetmeta and netmeta.
Figure 1.
Network plots created by R packages a) gemtc, b) pcnetmeta, and c) netmeta.
Table 5.
List of Treatment Reference Numbers for Diabetes Data.
Figure 2.
Inconsistency-detecting heat map function netheat from the netmeta package applied to the diabetes data set.
Table 6.
Estimates of odds ratios and 95% credible or confidence intervals of treatment effects in Diabetes data by three R packages.
Figure 3.
A forest plot of the estimates of odds ratios between each treatment and the reference placebo created using the gemtc R package and diabetes data.
Figure 4.
A sample of the detailed comparison-wise forest plots available from the gemtc R package outlining odds ratio estimates from contributing studies, direct evidence and indirect evidence using treatments 5 (diuretic) and 6 (placebo) from the diabetes data.
Figure 5.
A forest plot of the estimates of odds ratios between each treatment and the reference placebo created using the netmeta R package and diabetes data.
Figure 6.
A confidence interval plot from the pcnetmeta R package displaying estimates of the event rates for all treatments in the diabetes dataset.
Figure 7.
A density plot from the pcnetmeta R package displaying posterior densities for estimates of the event rates for all treatments in the diabetes dataset.
Figure 8.
A rank plot created using the rankogram function from the gemtc R package applied to the diabetes dataset illustrating empirical probabilities that each treatment is ranked 1st through 6th (left to right).
Table 7.
Rank probability matrix displaying estimated ranks of treatments from the Diabetes dataset obtained from the gemtc package.
Table 8.
Estimated 1st rank probabilities of treatments from the Diabetes dataset obtained from the pcnetmeta package.