Application of R2WinBUGS Package of R Sotware for Network Meta-Analysis
Xian‐Tao Zeng · Zhongguo xunzheng yixue zazhi · 2013
R Sotware is an open,free of use and charge statistical sotware which has a powerful graphic capability;however,it requires more complex codes and commands to perform network meta-analysis,which causes errors and dificulties in operation.WinBUGS sotware is based on Bayesian theory,which has a powerful data processing capability,and especially its codes are simple and easy to operate for dealing with network meta-analysis.However,its function of illustrating statistical results is very poor.In order to fully integrate the advantages of R sotware and WinBUGS sotware,an R2WinBUGS package based on R sotware has been developed which builds a bridge across two of them,making network meta-analysis process conveniently,quickly and result illustration more beautiful.In this article,we introduced how to use the R2WinBUGS package for performing network meta-analysis using examples.