Estimating the power of indirect comparisons: a simulation study.

Indirect comparisons are becoming increasingly popular for evaluating medical treatments that have not been compared head-to-head in randomized clinical trials (RCTs). While indirect methods have grown in popularity and acceptance, little is known about the fragility of confidence interval estimatio...

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Main Authors: Edward J Mills, Isabella Ghement, Christopher O'Regan, Kristian Thorlund
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3025012?pdf=render