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Table 2 Treatment ranking measures in the example of all-grade treatment-related adverse events

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

Treatment

Mean (P-score)

Median

95% credible interval

Frequentist P-score:

 1

0.365

NA

NA

 2

0.821

NA

NA

 3

0.677

NA

NA

 4

0.174

NA

NA

 5

0.096

NA

NA

 6

0.944

NA

NA

 7

0.432

NA

NA

Scaled rank in the NMA:

 1

0.362

0.333

(0.167, 0.500)

 2

0.764

0.667

(0.667, 1.000)

 3

0.780

0.833

(0.500, 1.000)

 4

0.164

0.167

(0.000, 0.500)

 5

0.092

0.000

(0.000, 0.333)

 6

0.924

1.000

(0.667, 1.000)

 7

0.415

0.500

(0.000, 0.833)

Expected scaled rank in a new study:

 1

0.360

0.365

(0.190, 0.509)

 2

0.748

0.749

(0.588, 0.897)

 3

0.757

0.771

(0.488, 0.943)

 4

0.202

0.174

(0.008, 0.573)

 5

0.141

0.124

(0.009, 0.369)

 6

0.873

0.897

(0.613, 0.993)

 7

0.418

0.413

(0.155, 0.729)

  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