Table 4. Inference and reporting tools available from NMA R packages gemtc, pcnetmeta and netmeta.
| Tasks | Features | gemtc | pcnetmeta | netmeta |
| Available summary effect measures for output | Relative risk (RR) | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Odds ratio (OR) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Risk difference (RD) | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Absolute risk (AR) | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | |
| Mean difference (MD) | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | |
| Standard mean difference (SMD) | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | |
| Arcsine difference (AS) | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | |
| Event rates | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | |
| Estimated effect measures | Listed with confidence/credible intervals | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Available in a table format | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Available in a forest plot with specified reference treatment | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | |
| Plot of estimated event rates with credible intervals | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | |
| Density plot of posterior samples | ✓ | ✓ | NA | |
| Rank probabilities | Estimates of ranks probabilities | ✓ | ✓ (1st only) | NA |
| Rank probabilities plot (rankogram) | ✓ | ✗ | NA | |
| SUCRA | ✗ | ✗ | NA |
Abbreviations and notations: NA not applicable; SUCRA sum under the cumulative ranking probabilities.