An empirical study on 209 networks of treatments revealed intransitivity to be common and multiple statistical tests suboptimal to assess transitivity

Abstract Background Transitivity assumption is the cornerstone of network meta-analysis (NMA). Investigating the plausibility of transitivity can unveil the credibility of NMA results. The commonness of transitivity was examined based on study dissimilarities regarding several study-level aggregate...

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Main Author: Loukia M. Spineli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2024-12-01
Series:BMC Medical Research Methodology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-024-02436-7
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