השוואת שיטות

	ניתוח מטא-אנליזה רשתי	ניתוח הטיית פרסום
תחום	סינתזת ראיות	מטא-אנליזה
משפחה	Process / pipeline	Hypothesis test
שנת המקור	2002	1997
הוגה השיטה	Lumley (2002)	Matthias Egger et al.
סוג	Method	Diagnostic bias test for meta-analysis
מקור מכונן	Lumley, T. (2002). Network meta-analysis for indirect treatment comparisons. Statistics in Medicine, 21(16), 2313–2324.	Egger, M., Davey Smith, G., Schneider, M., & Minder, C. (1997). Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test. BMJ, 315(7109), 629–634.
כינויים	Mixed Treatment Comparison, MTC, Indirect Comparison Meta-Analysis	Small-Study Effects Test, Funnel Plot Asymmetry Test, Egger Regression Test, Yayın Yanlılığı Analizi
קשורות	1	1
תקציר	Network meta-analysis (NMA) is a systematic method for comparing multiple interventions simultaneously within a single analytical framework, incorporating both direct evidence (head-to-head trials) and indirect evidence (comparisons via common comparators). First formalized by Lumley in 2002, NMA allows researchers to rank treatments and quantify comparative effectiveness even when some treatment pairs have never been directly studied.	Publication bias analysis examines whether the set of studies included in a meta-analysis is a representative sample of all conducted research, or whether studies with non-significant or unfavorable results have been systematically suppressed. Matthias Egger and colleagues introduced the regression-based funnel plot asymmetry test in 1997, providing a formal statistical complement to the graphical funnel plot inspection long used in evidence synthesis.