Contrast-Space Projection for Network Meta-Analysis: An Exact and Invariant Study-Based Decomposition of Direct and Indirect Contributions

arXiv:2604.21994 · stat.ME, stat.AP, stat.CO, stat.ML · Submitted 2026-04-23 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-04-23

Updated: 2026-08-30

Code: https://github.com/chongwangstat/CSP-NMA

Terminology

• Consistency — 28× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Redundancy — 10× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalization — 4× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Pairwise Comparisons — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Aggregation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Diagnostic Tools — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fisher Information — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Additive Decomposition — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Sparsity — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Unified Framework — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

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