Stan vs OpenBUGS (controlled from Stata)
A rather long posting this week for which I apologise. I would have split this posting over two weeks but I am about to go on my summer holiday and I wanted to avoid a long gap between the two halves. I have spent the last few weeks discussing how Stan can be called from Stata and now the […]
Network Meta-analysis with WinBUGS and Stata
In my previous posting (https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/bayeswithstata/2014/07/18/network-meta-analysis-in-stata/) I introduced an example of Network Meta-analysis taken from a NICE report that estimated the incidence of diabetes amongst people being treated for high blood pressure by one of six classes of drug. In that posting I analysed the data using Stata’s glm command and now I should like to […]
Network Meta-analysis in Stata
Regrettably clinical trials are often conducted that are too small to provide definitive evidence of the benefit of one treatment over another. In order to compensate for this, there has been a lot of work over the last twenty years on meta-analysing, or combining, the results from different trials. There is an example of a […]
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