State that ML-UMR is for single-arm, fully disconnected evidence - #118
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README - The opening describes ML-UMR as a population-adjusted single-arm indirect treatment comparison for treatments from fully disconnected evidence, and the extension of ML-NMR as one to the single-arm, fully unanchored setting. - STC is described as an unanchored (not one-arm) simulated treatment comparison, and the naive benchmark as an unadjusted comparison of outcomes across studies. - The "When to use ML-UMR" table gives MAIC and STC as anchored or fully unanchored (single-arm) and ML-UMR as fully unanchored (single-arm); the second "most appropriate when" item now reads "Indirectly comparing treatments from single-arm trials". A new paragraph states that ML-UMR is only for fully unanchored, single-arm comparisons and that randomized trials call for ML-NMR or another appropriate method. - The marginal hazard ratio paragraph states that the ratio varies over time even when both studies share one baseline shape (aux_by = "none"), explains why (non-collapsibility: the two risk sets lose high-risk patients at different rates), gives a worked number (conditional HR 0.50, marginal HR 0.50 rising to 0.66 with a common Weibull shape of 1.5), and names the cases where it stays constant. Vignettes - Every vignette built on randomized-trial data (binary, continuous, count, survival, fitting-and-diagnostics, choosing-a-method) says that the example creates hypothetical single-arm trials by dropping a common reference arm, or by treating a trial's arms as separate sources, only to illustrate ML-UMR; that randomized trials should never be analyzed this way in practice; and that ML-UMR is only for fully unanchored, single-arm comparisons. The introduction states the same scope once for all of them. - choosing-a-method is retitled "Choosing a method for single-arm indirect comparisons" and states throughout that its methods are for single-arm indirect comparisons of fully disconnected evidence. - count-outcomes explains why the SPFA rate ratio is the same in both populations and at every covariate profile: under SPFA with a Poisson log link it is directly transportable, the shared covariate factor cancels, and rates are standardized per unit exposure. It also says where the target population still matters (absolute predictions, the relaxed model, and non-collapsible measures such as the odds and hazard ratios). - The transportability reference now cites its arXiv preprint (arXiv:2602.17041) instead of an unpublished manuscript. - The precompiled HTML is re-rendered from the knitted sources without refitting; this also brings in the earlier removal of duplicate library() calls, which had not been rendered into the HTML.
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The README and the choosing-a-method decision guide said randomized trials should never be analyzed as single-arm evidence. Randomized trials can sit in disconnected components (A vs C and B vs D with no link between C and D), where randomization supplies no anchor for A vs B and ML-NMR cannot estimate it; that evidence is fully disconnected, which is the setting ML-UMR is for. Both sentences, and the NEWS bullet, now say that trials connected through a common arm must not be broken into single-arm evidence. The notes in the worked examples already refer to that specific step (dropping a common reference arm or splitting one trial's arms) and are unchanged.
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🟡 Minor · Qualify at_time for shared baseline shapes. · README.md:150-156
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at_timefor shared baseline shapes.The README does not state that
at_timeapplies only when the studies have different baseline shapes. For a shared baseline shape,marginal_effects(effect = "hr", at_time = <nonzero>)raises an error. Users must usepredict(type = "loghr")for the time-varying curve.Suggested fix
-The scalar marginal hazard ratio is therefore its value at one time, chosen with `at_time`, and the primary +When the studies have different baseline shapes, the scalar marginal hazard ratio is its value at one time, chosen with `at_time`. With a shared baseline shape, it is the closed-form `t -> 0` limit (`at_time = 0`). The primary🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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The README said the scalar marginal hazard ratio is its value at a time chosen with `at_time`. That holds only when the two studies have different baseline shapes. With a shared shape the scalar is the closed-form t -> 0 limit, marginal_effects() accepts only `at_time = 0`, and for an SPFA fit the value equals the conditional hazard ratio. The sentence now says both, and points to predict(type = "loghr") for the curve.
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Documentation only; no code changes. The README and vignettes now state throughout that ML-UMR is for single-arm indirect comparisons of fully disconnected evidence, and two results that could be misread are explained.
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binary-outcomes,continuous-outcomes,count-outcomes,survival-outcomes,fitting-and-diagnostics,choosing-a-method). Each data note now says three things:introduction. States the same scope once for all the examples.choosing-a-method. Retitled "Choosing a method for single-arm indirect comparisons" (vignette index entry and pkgdown navbar too). It now says in the opening, the methods table, the dataset section, the comparison table and the decision guide that every method covered is for single-arm indirect comparisons of fully disconnected evidence.count-outcomes. Explains why the SPFA rate ratio is identical in the index population, the comparator population and at every covariate profile:NEWS.md. New bullet under "Example data and documentation".Checks
.Rmdfiles, with no model refits.library()lines. Those lines were already removed from the vignette sources but had not been rendered into the HTML..Rmd.origand its knitted.Rmdcarry the same edits.R CMD buildfrom a clean clone creates all nine vignettes and registers the newchoosing-a-methodtitle.delta_indexanddelta_comparator. The shipped tables show all four rate ratios (both populations and three profiles) at 0.8118294.Summary by CodeRabbit