Data for the thrombolytic NMA-network discussed in Dias et al. (2010)

The thrombolytic dataset describes a network comparing 9 treatments with 50 trials. There are 22 pairwise comparisons and 2 thee-arm trials.

Thrombdat

Format

A data frame with 50 observations on the following 11 variables.

r1

Number of events (responses) in the baseline treatment (treatment 1).

r2

Number of events (responses) in the second study arm treatment (treatment 2).

r3

Number of events (responses) in the third study arm treatment (treatment 3).

n1

Total number of study participants in the baseline treatment (treatment 1).

n2

Total number of study participants in the second study arm treatment (treatment 2).

n3

Total number of study participants in the second study arm treatment (treatment 3).

t1

Indicator variable identifying treatment 1.

t2

Indicator variable identifying treatment 2.

t3

Indicator variable identifying treatment 3.

na

Indicator with number of arms in trial.

Source

Dias, S., Welton, N. J., Caldwell, D. M. and Ades, A. E. (2010) Checking consistency in mixed treatment comparison meta-analysis, Statistics in Medicine, 29:932--944.