Application of R2WinBUGS Package of R Software for Network Meta-Analysis_Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine

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 ZENG Xiantao ^1,2,3 , ZHANG Chao ^1,2 , GUO Yi ^3,4

1. Department of Stomatology, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan 442000, China;2. Evidence-Based Medicine Center, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan 442000, China;3. Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China;4. State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China;

Corresponding author：

ZENG Xiantao, Email: zengxiantao1128@163.com

Keywords：

R software; R2WinBUGS package; WinBUGS software; Network meta-analysis

DOI：

10.7507/1672-2531.20130194

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R Software is an open, free of use and charge statistical software which has a powerful graphic capability; however, it requires more complex codes and commands to perform network meta-analysis, which causes errors and difficulties in operation. WinBUGS software is based on Bayesian theory, which has a powerful data processing capability, and especially its codes are simple and easy to operate for dealing with network meta-analysis. However, its function of illustrating statistical results is very poor. In order to fully integrate the advantages of R software and WinBUGS software, an R2WinBUGS package based on R software has been developed which builds a “bridge” across two of them, making network meta-analysis process conveniently, quickly and result illustration more beautiful. In this article, we introduced how to use the R2WinBUGS package for performing network meta-analysis using examples.

Citation： ZENG Xiantao,ZHANG Chao,GUO Yi. Application of R2WinBUGS Package of R Software for Network Meta-Analysis. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2013, 13(9): 1137-1144. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.20130194 Copy

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4. Dias S, Welton NJ, Sutton AJ, et al. Appendix A: WinBUGS code used in Bayesian Mixed Treatment Comparisons Meta-Analysis. In: NICE DSU Technical Support Document 2: A Generalised Linear Modelling Framework for Pairwise and Network Meta-Analysis of Randomised Controlled Trials. 2011; last updated March 2013; available from http://www.nicedsu.org.uk.
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