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Table 1 Treatment ranking measures in the example of smoking cessation

From: Predictive P-score for treatment ranking in Bayesian network meta-analysis

Treatment

Mean (P-score)

Median

95% credible interval

Frequentist P-Score:

 1

0.048

NA

NA

 2

0.404

NA

NA

 3

0.710

NA

NA

 4

0.838

NA

NA

Scaled rank in the NMA:

 1

0.038

0.000

(0.000, 0.333)

 2

0.394

0.333

(0.000, 1.000)

 3

0.689

0.667

(0.333, 1.000)

 4

0.879

1.000

(0.333, 1.000)

Expected scaled rank in a new study:

 1

0.192

0.182

(0.061, 0.379)

 2

0.440

0.435

(0.189, 0.719)

 3

0.623

0.624

(0.425, 0.813)

 4

0.746

0.762

(0.456, 0.943)

  1. Note: NA, not applicable. The posterior means of the scaled ranks in the NMA are the Bayesian P-scores, and those of the expected scaled ranks in a new study are the predictive P-scores