Visualize Multi-Component Interventions in Network Meta-Analysis

A set of functions providing several visualization tools for exploring the behavior of the components in a network meta-analysis of multi-component (complex) interventions: - components descriptive analysis - heat plot of the two-by-two component combinations - leaving one component combination out scatter plot - violin plot for specific component combinations' effects - density plot for components' effects - waterfall plot for the interventions' effects that differ by a certain component combination - network graph of components - rank heat plot of components for multiple outcomes. The implemented tools are described by Seitidis et al. (2023) .

viscomp

Description

The goal of viscomp is to provide several visualization tools for exploring the behavior of the components in a network meta-analysis of multi-component (complex) interventions:

• components descriptive analysis
• heat plot of the two-by-two component combinations
• leaving one component combination out scatter plot
• violin plot for specific component combinations’ effects
• density plot for components’ effects
• waterfall plot for the interventions’ effects that differ by a certain component combination
• network graph of components
• rank heat plot of components for multiple outcomes.

Reference

Seitidis, G., Tsokani, S., Christogiannis, C., Kontouli, K.-M., Fyraridis, A., Nikolakopoulos, S., Veroniki, A.A. and Mavridis, D. (2023), Graphical tools for visualizing the results of network meta-analysis of multicomponent interventions. Research Synthesis Methods, 1-14.

Installation

Current development version on GitHub:

Installation using R package devtools:

install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("georgiosseitidis/viscomp")

Installation using R package remotes:

install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("georgiosseitidis/viscomp")

How to use viscomp

We illustrate how to use viscomp in the vignette:

vignette("viscomp", package = "viscomp")

How to cite viscomp

APA

Seitidis, G., Tsokani, S., Christogiannis, C., Kontouli, K. M., Fyraridis, A., Nikolakopoulos, S., Veroniki, A. A., & Mavridis, D. (2022). viscomp: Visualize Multi-component Interventions in Network Meta-Analysis (Version 1.0.0). https://github.com/georgiosseitidis/viscomp

BibTeX

@manual{Seitidis_viscomp_Visualize_Multi-component_2022, author = {Seitidis, Georgios and Tsokani, Sofia and Christogiannis, Christos and Kontouli, Katerina Maria and Fyraridis, Alexandros and Nikolakopoulos, Stavros and Veroniki, Areti Angeliki and Mavridis, Dimitris}, title = {{viscomp: Visualize Multi-component Interventions in Network Meta-Analysis}}, url = {https://github.com/georgiosseitidis/viscomp}, year = {2022} }