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- This approach has been used to evaluate the assumption of coherence in A case study of multiple-treatments meta-analysis demonstrates that covariates should be considered. Salanti G, Marinho V, Higgins JP.J Clin Epidemiol. 2009 Jan 19. [Epub ahead of print]
- For a description of the routine and an example download the document 'help on MTcoherence.fun'. The data used in the example can be found here.
- How to use the routine
1. You need to download the R meta package from http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/meta/index.html.
2. coherence.R This is an R script you need to run in R and has the main function MTcoherence.fun and subroutines.
- This routine has been used also to evalutate coherence in Multiple-treatments meta-analysis of chemotherapy and targeted therapies in advanced breast cancer.Mauri D, Polyzos NP, Salanti G, Pavlidis N, Ioannidis JP.J Natl Cancer Inst. 2008 Dec 17;100(24):1780-91. Epub 2008 Dec 9. Review. Survival benefits with diverse chemotherapy regimens for ovarian cancer: meta-analysis of multiple treatments.Kyrgiou M, Salanti G, Pavlidis N, Paraskevaidis E, Ioannidis JP.J Natl Cancer Inst. 2006 Nov 15;98(22):1655-63.
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