ZENGXian-tao 1,2,3,4 , ZHANGChao 1 , LISheng 4,5 , XUChang 5 , GUOYi 4,6
  • 1. Center for Evidence-Based Medicine and Clinical Research, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan 442000, China;
  • 2. Department of Stomatology, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan 442000, China;
  • 3. Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Laboratory, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan 442000, China;
  • 4. Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China;
  • 5. Department of Urology, Zhongnan Hospital, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China;
  • 6. State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China;
GUOYi, Email: guoyi@whu.edu.cn
Meta-analysis; WinBUGS software; Doodle model; Bayesian statistics
10.7507/1672-2531.20140017
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The key for performing meta-analysis using WinBUGS software is to construct a model of Bayesian statistics. The hand-written code model and Doodle model are two major methods for constructing it. The approach of hand-written code is flexible and convenient, but the language programming is fallibility. The Doodle is complicated, but it is benefit to understand the structure of hand-written code model and prevent error. This article briefly describes how to construct the Doodle model for binary and continuous data of head to head meta-analysis, indirect comparison and network meta-analysis, and ordinal variables meta-analysis.

Citation： ZENGXian-tao, ZHANGChao, LISheng, XUChang, GUOYi. Constructing the Doodle for Performing Meta-analysis in WinBUGS Software. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2014, 14(1): 101-109. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.20140017 Copy

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