Friday 22 January 2021

network meta-analysis

example data set ?parkinsons (Phillippo 2020)

way station

a stopping point on a journey

gaps in the toolchain

Cochrane reporting

Cochrane Handbook (Higgins et al. 2019)

extending the toolchain

Sensitivity: how much do the studies agree?

contributing

accessible pathways for all stakeholders

principal investigator

website + email

lead statistician

github issues public discussion forum

intrepid pdoc (that’s me!)

maintainer

contributing

computational collaborators

You are warmly encouraged to try, practice, and learn with me

library(usethis)
# create a fork and clone
create_from_github("softloud/nmareporting")
# create a branch for the specific contribution
pr_init("ecovignette")
#
# ecologist then writes vignette
#
# contribute the vignette to the code repository
pr_push()
#
# waits for maintainer to merge
#
# once the maintainer has merged
pr_finish()

usethis:: pull request workflow (Wickham and Bryan 2019)

manuscript

Thoughts, comments, and contributions welcome

references

Higgins, Julian PT, James Thomas, Jacqueline Chandler, Miranda Cumpston, Tianjing Li, Matthew J Page, and Vivian A Welch. 2019. Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions. John Wiley & Sons.

Phillippo, David M. 2020. “Multinma: Network Meta-Analysis of Individual and Aggregate Data in Stan.” Manual. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3904454.

Wickham, Hadley, and Jennifer Bryan. 2019. Usethis: Automate Package and Project Setup. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=usethis.