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glargine versus Liraglutide. These comparisons are not present in Figure9.3.
Readers may wish to conrm the other effects using data published in Scott
(2012) (Table9.3).
Exercises for Chapter 9
1. What is the difference between an MTC and a meta-analysis, and
why are these methods important for some economic evaluations?
2. What assumptions are needed for an MTC to be undertaken for an
economic evaluation?
3. By adding another treatment, X, to the network in Figure9.3, where
X was compared with Treatments P and A (X vs. P and X vs. Awith
mean treatment effects of −0.98, SE = 0.34 a