Figure 3

Presents the posterior distributions of the between-trial variance parameters in the second illustrative example under the six employed MTC models: the homogeneous variance model (row 1); the unrestricted variances model (row 2); the exchangeable variances model (row 3); the consistency variances model (row 4); the frequentistically informed variances model (row 5); and the empirically informed variances model (row 6). The three presented comparisons are: Treatment 2 (Trt2) versus control (column 1); treatment 4 (Trt2) versus Control; and Trt4 versus Trt1. The remaining comparisons were selective excluded due to the posterior variance distributions being more similar across the five heterogeneous variance approaches.