smoking {gemtc}

Psychological treatments to aid smoking cessation

Description

A dataset of 24 trials investigating four psychological treatments and no treatment for smoking cessation. The outcome is the number of people who stopped smoking.

Format

A network meta-analysis dataset containing 50 rows of arm-based data (responders and sample size).

Source

Lu and Ades (2006), Assessing Evidence Inconsistency in Mixed Treatment Comparisons, Journal of the American Statistical Society, 101(474):447-459. [doi:10.1198/016214505000001302]

Hasselblad (1998), Meta-analysis of multitreatment studies, Medical Decision Making 18(1):37-43. [doi:10.1177/0272989X9801800110]