smoking {NMA}

Smoking cessation data

Description

A network meta-analysis data for smoking cessation from Lu and Ades (2006) and Higgins et al. (2012).

• study: Study ID.

• trt: A character variable that indicates the type of intervention, A: No contact, B: Self help, C: Individual counselling, D: Group counselling.

• n: Number of participants of the intervention.

• d: Number of successes of the intervention.

Usage

data(smoking)

Format

An arm-based dataset with 24 studies.

References

Lu, G., Ades, A. E. (2006). Assessing evidence inconsistency in mixed treatment comparisons. Journal of the American Statistical Association 101:447-459.

Higgins, J. P. T., Jackson, D., Barrett, J. K. et al (2012). Consistency and inconsistency in network meta-analysis: concepts and models for multi-arm studies. Research Synthesis Methods 3:98-110.