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  <dc:title>Network Meta-Analysis Based on Multivariate Meta-Analysis and
Meta-Regression Models</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package NMA version 3.1-1</dc:title>
  <dc:subject>CRAN Task View: MetaAnalysis (https://CRAN.R-project.org/view=MetaAnalysis)</dc:subject>
  <dc:description>Network meta-analysis tools based on contrast-based approach using the multivariate meta-analysis and meta-regression models (Noma et al. (2025) &lt;doi:10.1101/2025.09.15.25335823&gt;). Comprehensive analysis tools for network meta-analysis and meta-regression (e.g., synthesis analysis, ranking analysis, and creating league table) are available through simple commands. For inconsistency assessment, the local and global inconsistency tests based on the Higgins' design-by-treatment interaction model are available. In addition, the side-splitting methods and Jackson's random inconsistency model can be applied. Standard graphical tools for network meta-analysis, including network plots, ranked forest plots, and transitivity analyses, are also provided. For the synthesis analyses, the Noma-Hamura's improved REML (restricted maximum likelihood)-based methods (Noma et al. (2023) &lt;doi:10.1002/jrsm.1652&gt; &lt;doi:10.1002/jrsm.1651&gt;) are adopted as the default methods. </dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: R (&gt;= 3.5.0)</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: stats, grid, MASS, ggplot2, metafor, stringr, forestplot,
nleqslv</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Hisashi Noma &lt;noma@ism.ac.jp&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Hisashi Noma [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    &lt;https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2520-9949&gt;),
  Kazushi Maruo [aut],
  Shiro Tanaka [aut],
  Toshi A. Furukawa [aut]</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL-3</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2026-01-28</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=NMA</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.NMA</dc:identifier>
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