R help - Sep 2017 - Network meta-analysis help

Greetings. I hope my message finds you well.

I know this question may be silly for some experts like you but it's a very
important matter for me so, sorry for that.

I was trying to make a network meta-analysis using R for the attached data set
which shows the association between breast feeding and autism spectrum disorder
(the event here is bad).

I've searched a lot through the internet but no clear guidelines on how to
do network meta-analysis and produce the related figures (Forest plot, Network
plot, Heat map .... ect).

I've installed "netmeta" pack successfully.

Can you help me in this matter ? or even guide me where to find help ?

I really need to finish this analysis.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

Thanks in advance.

> On Sep 19, 2017, at 6:18 PM, Sherief Ghozy via R-help <r-help at
r-project.org> wrote:
> 
> Greetings. I hope my message finds you well.
> 
> I know this question may be silly for some experts like you but it's a
very important matter for me so, sorry for that.
> 
> I was trying to make a network meta-analysis using R for the attached data
set
Nope. It probably wasn't a MIME-text file.

> which shows the association between breast feeding and autism spectrum
disorder (the event here is bad).
> 
> I've searched a lot through the internet but no clear guidelines on how
to do network meta-analysis and produce the related figures (Forest plot,
Network plot, Heat map .... ect).
> 
> I've installed "netmeta" pack successfully.
> 
> Can you help me in this matter ? or even guide me where to find help ?
> 
> I really need to finish this analysis.
I think that if you read the Posting Guide you will find that your question is
rather off-topic for rhelp. I think it may be more on-topic at
https://crossvalidated.com/
> 
> Sorry for any inconvenience.

-- 

David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA

'Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.' 
-Gehm's Corollary to Clarke's Third Law

Hi Sherief,
First thing is your data set did not make it  If it is not too large,
perhaps you could send the output of "dput" in the body of the message
or send a CSV file with the extension changed to ".txt". If the data
set is very large, perhaps you could send a subset as described above.

Jim


On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 11:18 AM, Sherief Ghozy via R-help
<r-help at r-project.org> wrote:
> Greetings. I hope my message finds you well.
>
> I know this question may be silly for some experts like you but it's a
very important matter for me so, sorry for that.
>
> I was trying to make a network meta-analysis using R for the attached data
set which shows the association between breast feeding and autism spectrum
disorder (the event here is bad).
>
> I've searched a lot through the internet but no clear guidelines on how
to do network meta-analysis and produce the related figures (Forest plot,
Network plot, Heat map .... ect).
>
> I've installed "netmeta" pack successfully.
>
> Can you help me in this matter ? or even guide me where to find help ?
>
> I really need to finish this analysis.
>
> Sorry for any inconvenience.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.

No "clear guidelines" ??!!

A google search on "network meta-analysis" produced a whole bunch of
hits,
including this:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23674332

While "clear" is undefined (what is clear to you may be opaque to me),
it
is hard for me to believe that none of the search results suit. But be that
as it may, I think your query would be better posted on a statistics list
like stats.stackexchange.com . There someone may be able to help guide you
to appropriate statistical resources. Once you've figured out the concepts,
you should have a much easier time with the relevant R package(s).


Cheers,
Bert





Bert Gunter

"The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and
sticking things into it."
-- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )

On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 3:11 PM, Jim Lemon <drjimlemon at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi Sherief,
> First thing is your data set did not make it  If it is not too large,
> perhaps you could send the output of "dput" in the body of the
message
> or send a CSV file with the extension changed to ".txt". If the
data
> set is very large, perhaps you could send a subset as described above.
>
> Jim
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 11:18 AM, Sherief Ghozy via R-help
> <r-help at r-project.org> wrote:
> > Greetings. I hope my message finds you well.
> >
> > I know this question may be silly for some experts like you but
it's a
> very important matter for me so, sorry for that.
> >
> > I was trying to make a network meta-analysis using R for the attached
> data set which shows the association between breast feeding and autism
> spectrum disorder (the event here is bad).
> >
> > I've searched a lot through the internet but no clear guidelines
on how
> to do network meta-analysis and produce the related figures (Forest plot,
> Network plot, Heat map .... ect).
> >
> > I've installed "netmeta" pack successfully.
> >
> > Can you help me in this matter ? or even guide me where to find help ?
> >
> > I really need to finish this analysis.
> >
> > Sorry for any inconvenience.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> > ______________________________________________
> > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
> > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/
> posting-guide.html
> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/
> posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>
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