Ranking treatments in frequentist network meta-analysis works without resampling methods

Ranking treatments in frequentist network meta-analysis works without resampling methods

BACKGROUND Network meta-analysis is used to compare three or more treatments for the same condition. Within a Bayesian framework, for each treatment the probability of being best, or, more general, the probability that it has a certain rank can be derived from the posterior distributions of all treatments. The treatments can then be ranked by the surface under the cumulative ranking curve (SUCR...

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Resampling Effects on Significance Analysis of Network Clustering and Ranking

Community detection helps us simplify the complex configuration of networks, but communities are reliable only if they are statistically significant. To detect statistically significant communities, a common approach is to resample the original network and analyze the communities. But resampling assumes independence between samples, while the components of a network are inherently dependent. Th...

analysis of power in the network society

اندیشمندان و صاحب نظران علوم اجتماعی بر این باورند که مرحله تازه ای در تاریخ جوامع بشری اغاز شده است. ویژگیهای این جامعه نو را می توان پدیده هایی از جمله اقتصاد اطلاعاتی جهانی ، هندسه متغیر شبکه ای، فرهنگ مجاز واقعی ، توسعه حیرت انگیز فناوری های دیجیتال، خدمات پیوسته و نیز فشردگی زمان و مکان برشمرد. از سوی دیگر قدرت به عنوان موضوع اصلی علم سیاست جایگاه مهمی در روابط انسانی دارد، قدرت و بازتولید...

Network Meta-Analysis of Onychomycosis Treatments.

BACKGROUND Many onychomycosis treatments have not been directly compared in head-to-head clinical trials. OBJECTIVE To determine the relative efficacy of onychomycosis treatments using network meta-analysis (NMA). METHODS We conducted a systematic review and NMA of mycological cure rates. RESULTS Nineteen trials were included in the network. Terbinafine 250 mg was significantly superior t...