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Table 7 Illustrative example: ranking of treatments

From: Assessing the comparative effects of interventions in COPD: a tutorial on network meta-analysis for clinicians

Frequentist FE model

Frequentist RE model

Intervention

p-score

Intervention

p-score

Comparator A

0.984798

Comparator A

0.930552

Intervention X

0.815202

Intervention X

0.869446

Comparator C

0.600000

Comparator C

0.597584

Comparator E

0.349816

Comparator E

0.336729

Comparator B

0.250183

Comparator B

0.264845

Comparator D

1.71E − 06

Comparator D

0.000843

Bayesian FE model

Bayesian RE model

Intervention

SUCRA

Intervention

SUCRA

Comparator A

0.981027

Comparator A

0.92899

Intervention X

0.818973

Intervention X

0.870971

Comparator C

0.599903

Comparator C

0.577122

Comparator E

0.388257

Comparator E

0.382042

Comparator B

0.211838

Comparator B

0.23979

Comparator D

1.9E − 06

Comparator D

0.001084

  1. FE fixed effects, RE random effects, SUCRA surface under the cumulative ranking curve