NEWS

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mtrank 0.3-0

User-visible changes

• Attribute "net.obj" for tcc and mtrank objects is now stored in list element "x"

• Graph labels are added on the left and right side of the null effect for forest plots of tcc objects

• tcc():

  • new list elements 'x', 'call' and 'version'

• mtrank():

  • new list elements 'swd', 'swd.below.null', 'swd.above.null', 'sm', 'level', 'reference.group', 'baseline.reference', 'pooled'

• forest.tcc():

  • new list elements 'label.left' and 'label.right'

Bug fixes

• forest.tcc():
  • use the confidence intervals calculated by tcc() instead of recalculating them at the default level of 0.95

mtrank 0.2-0 (2025-06-04)

Major changes

• New treatment choice criterion (TCC) derived from network estimates replaces TCC derived from individual study results

• Main argument in R function tcc() must be a network meta-analysis object created with netmeta() from R package netmeta

• New R function linegraph() added to plot line graphs

• R package *ggplot2 added to Imports

User-visible changes

• R function paired_pref() renamed to fitted.mtrank()

• Argument 'reference.group' was removed from function mtrank()

• tcc():

  • single new argument 'x' replaces arguments 'treat', 'event', 'n', 'mean', 'sd', 'data', and 'studlab'
  • arguments 'mcid', 'mcid.below.nukk' ,'mcid.above.null' renamed to 'swd', 'swd.below.null', 'swd.above.null'

• forest.tcc():

  • argument 'treat' replaced by 'reference.group'
  • new argument 'baseline.reference'
  • new arguments 'col.winner' and 'col.tie'
  • argument 'fill.lower.equi' replaced by 'fill.swd.below.null'
  • argument 'fill.upper.equi' replaced by 'fill.swd.above.null'

Bug fixes

• mtrank():
  • use 'method = "BFGS"' internally to avoid errors due to convergence failure

mtrank 0.1-1 (2025-02-26)

Bug fixes

• tcc():
  • use correct 'no_effect1' and 'no_effect2' values for relative effect measures if argument 'relax = TRUE'

mtrank 0.1-0 (2025-01-31)

First version released on CRAN