Creates a scatterplot of the SUCRA values from the network meta-analysis and the network meta-regression for a specified level or value of the investigated covariate.
Arguments
- full
- reg
An object of S3 class
run_metareg. See 'Value' inrun_metareg.- cov_name
A character or text to indicate the name of the covariate.
- drug_names
A vector of labels with the name of the interventions in the order they appear in the argument
dataofrun_model. Ifdrug_namesis not defined, the order of the interventions as they appear indatais used, instead.
Value
A scatterplot of the SUCRA values under the network meta-analysis (y-axis) against the SUCRA values under the network meta-regression (x-axis) for a specified level or value of the investigated covariate.
Details
The names of the interventions appear above each point in the plot. Three coloured rectangles are drawn in the scatterplot: a red rectangle for SUCRA values up to 50%, a yellow rectangular for SUCRA values between 50% and 80%, and a green rectangle for SUCRA values over 80%. Interventions falling at the green area are considered as the highest ranked interventions, whilst interventions falling at the red area are considered as the lowest ranked interventions.
scatterplot_sucra is integrated in metareg_plot.
scatterplot_sucra can be used only for a network of interventions.
Otherwise, the execution of the function will be stopped and an error
message will be printed on the R console.
References
Salanti G, Ades AE, Ioannidis JP. Graphical methods and numerical summaries for presenting results from multiple-treatment meta-analysis: an overview and tutorial. J Clin Epidemiol 2011;64(2):163–71. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2010.03.016