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GeMTC R package: model generation for network meta-analysis
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zero cell #49

Closed PatriciaKZ closed 5 years ago

PatriciaKZ commented 6 years ago

Dear all, Does gemtc allow to add 0.5 in the numerator of treatments with zero events? I can run it in OPENBUGS but when I try it in gemtc the model doesn´t run... the message says that there is a non-intenger for x. Thanks for any help

gertvv commented 5 years ago

This is not possible in JAGS. Such continuity corrections are generally not necessary in a Bayesian model, and that is considered one of the advantages of Bayesian methods. See for example https://doi.org/10.1002/sim.1761