A database to initiate methodological advances in the evaluation of transitivity assumption in network meta-analysis: qualitative features and limitations of the tracenma R package

Abstract Background Transitivity assumption underlies the network meta-analysis framework and states that treatment comparisons are similar regarding the distribution of important characteristics that act as effect modifiers. Currently, there is a lack of methods to assess transitivity quantitativel...

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Main Authors: Loukia M. Spineli, Andrés Mauricio García-Sierra, Juan Jose Yepes-Nuñez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2025-07-01
Series:BMC Medical Research Methodology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-025-02634-x
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