This Package is quite similar and has been inspired by the popular Bayesian NMA package gemtc. Some additional features of bnma include:
- bnma allows binomial, normal, and multinomial outcomes.
- bnma adds modelling baseline risk
- bnma automatically checks for convergence using gelman-rubin diagnostics before sampling full iteration amount
- bnma generates reasonable and dispersed initial values if left unspecified
- bnma adds an option to report relative risk, risk difference, and number needed to treat using external placebo event rate when the outcome is binomial
- bnma adds new summary plots: rank plots, forest plot, etc
Please see the vignette for detailed examples of using this package.