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    • Using local communities to establish geographical boundaries for case studies 

      Bosley, Helen; Henshall, Catherine; Jackson, Debra (2019-02)
      Background Case studies are widely used in the social sciences to explore complex phenomena in natural settings. Applying boundaries is vital to ensure cases are easily identifiable and similar enough to be treated as ...

    • Vitruvian plot: a visualisation tool for multiple outcomes in network meta-analysis 

      Ostinelli, Edoardo; Zangani, Caroline; Smith, Katharine A; Cipriani, Andrea (2022-05)
      Objective A network meta-analysis (NMA) usually assesses multiple outcomes across several treatment comparisons. The Vitruvian plot aims to facilitate communication of multiple outcomes from NMAs to patients and ...

    • The wh-questions of network meta-analyses 

      De Giorgi, Riccardo (2019-10)
      Currently, network meta-analyses (NMAs) are the only technique that allow us to compare and rank numerous treatments across trials. Evidence produced by NMAs relies on pooled data from both direct and indirect comparisons ...

    • When Deploying Predictive Algorithms, Are Summary Performance Measures Sufficient? 

      Joyce, Dan W; Geddes, John R (2020-01)
      The last decade’s growth in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and statistical methods for high-dimensional data has driven a zeitgeist of prediction (or forecasting) in medicine and psychiatry. Algorithms for ...

    • A year in statistics—the view from the trenches 

      External author(s) only (2020-01)
      Editorial: Last year we launched the EBM Methods Verdicts as part of an attempt to keep on top of developments in statistics that will impact on the way we do research.1 2 We focused on statistical methods and in particular ...