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title: 'mlumr: Multilevel Unanchored Meta-Regression for Indirect Treatment Comparisons'
version: 0.1.0
abstract: Bayesian multilevel unanchored meta-regression (ML-UMR) for indirect treatment
  comparisons using individual patient data (IPD) and aggregate data (AgD). Implements
  shared prognostic factor assumption (SPFA) and relaxed SPFA models for binary, continuous,
  and count outcomes via 'Stan'. Also provides simulated treatment comparison (STC)
  via parametric G-computation and naive unadjusted benchmarks. ML-UMR is an adaptation
  of the ML-NMR methodology (Phillippo et al. 2020, <https://doi.org/10.1111/rssa.12579>)
  implemented in the 'multinma' package (GPL-3) to the unanchored two-trial case;
  the public API deliberately mirrors multinma's so users can move between ML-NMR
  and ML-UMR with the same workflow.
authors:
- family-names: Sofi-Mahmudi
  given-names: Ahmad
  email: a.sofimahmudi@gmail.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6829-0823
- family-names: Chandler
  given-names: Conor
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1365-9002
preferred-citation:
  type: manual
  title: 'mlumr: Multilevel Unanchored Meta-Regression for Indirect Treatment Comparisons'
  authors:
  - family-names: Sofi-Mahmudi
    given-names: Ahmad
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6829-0823
    email: a.sofimahmudi@gmail.com
  - family-names: Chandler
    given-names: Conor
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1365-9002
  year: '2026'
  notes: R package version 0.1.0. An adaptation of the ML-NMR methodology to the unanchored
    case; built on conventions established by the 'multinma' package (Phillippo et
    al., GPL-3).
  url: https://github.com/choxos/mlumr
repository: https://cran.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/choxos/mlumr
commit: 5a8d1ccb0a47949e856f0c2f952361a8f45285c2
url: https://choxos.github.io/mlumr/
date-released: '2026-05-20'
contact:
- family-names: Sofi-Mahmudi
  given-names: Ahmad
  email: a.sofimahmudi@gmail.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6829-0823
references:
- type: manual
  title: 'multinma: Bayesian Network Meta-Analysis of Individual and Aggregate Data'
  authors:
  - family-names: Phillippo
    given-names: David M.
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2672-7841
  year: '2020'
  notes: R package, GPL-3. The ML-NMR reference implementation that mlumr adapts to
    the unanchored case.
  url: https://dmphillippo.github.io/multinma/
  doi: 10.5281/zenodo.3904454
- type: article
  title: 'Anchors Away: Navigating Unanchored Indirect Comparisons With Multilevel
    Unanchored Meta-Regression (ML-UMR)'
  authors:
  - family-names: Chandler
    given-names: Conor
  - family-names: Ishak
    given-names: Jack
  journal: Value in Health
  year: '2025'
  volume: '28'
  notes: ISPOR Europe 2025 poster, MSR28
  url: https://www.valueinhealthjournal.com/article/S1098-3015(25)05944-3/abstract
  start: S498
- type: article
  title: 'Surviving Unanchored Indirect Comparisons: An Extension of Multilevel Unanchored
    Meta-Regression (ML-UMR) for Survival Analyses'
  authors:
  - family-names: Chandler
    given-names: Conor
  - family-names: Ishak
    given-names: Jack
  journal: Value in Health
  year: '2026'
  volume: '29'
  issue: S6
  notes: ISPOR 2026 poster, MSR131
  url: https://www.ispor.org/heor-resources/presentations-database/presentation-cti/ispor-2026/poster-session-3-3/surviving-unanchored-indirect-comparisons-an-extension-of-multilevel-unanchored-meta-regression-ml-umr-for-survival-analyses
- type: article
  title: Multilevel Network Meta-Regression for population-adjusted treatment comparisons
  authors:
  - family-names: Phillippo
    given-names: David M.
  - family-names: Dias
    given-names: Sofia
  - family-names: Ades
    given-names: A. E.
  - family-names: Belger
    given-names: Mark
  - family-names: Brnabic
    given-names: Alan
  - family-names: Schacht
    given-names: Alexander
  - family-names: Saure
    given-names: Daniel
  - family-names: Kadziola
    given-names: Zbigniew
  - family-names: Welton
    given-names: Nicky J.
  journal: 'Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A'
  year: '2020'
  volume: '183'
  issue: '3'
  doi: 10.1111/rssa.12579
  start: '1189'
  end: '1210'