Table 4.

Treatment effect estimates results from applying the standard models and our missing data model to the schizophrenia meta‐analysis example.

		Fixed effect models	Random effects models
		Posterior median	Posterior median
		(95%CI)	(95%CI)
				Between studies
		Odds ratio	Odds ratio	standard deviation
Standard models	Complete cases	3.75 (2.66, 5.37)	8.51 (3.63, 30.66)	1.41 (0.70, 2.80)
	All missing are failures	3.65 (2.65, 5.09)	7.60 (3.48, 26.80)	1.27 (0.58, 2.66)
	Best‐case scenario	6.16 (4.40, 8.74)	12.92 (5.42, 48.38)	1.44 (0.72, 2.86)
	Worst‐case scenario	1.69 (1.26, 2.29)	4.39 (1.60, 14.96)	1.81 (1.11, 3.15)
	${\pi }_{i,k}^{\text{miss}}=0$	3.59 (2.63, 4.97)	7.06 (3.38, 21.63)	1.19 (0.56, 2.41)
Missing data	${\pi }_{i,k}^{\text{miss}}\sim \text{Beta}(1,1)$	3.76 (2.67, 5.37)	5.80 (2.96, 15.34)	1.01 (0.37, 2.12)
framework	${\pi }_{i,k}^{\text{miss}}\sim \text{Beta}(5,5)$	3.35 (2.44, 4.62)	5.41 (2.83, 14.05)	1.05 (0.46, 2.12)
models priors	${\pi }_{i,k}^{\text{miss}}\sim \text{Beta}(3,7)$	3.46 (2.52, 4.77)	5.92 (3.02, 15.71)	1.08 (0.50, 2.15)
	${\pi }_{i,1}^{\text{miss}}\sim \text{Beta}(3,7)\text{and}{\pi }_{i,2}^{\text{miss}}\sim \text{Beta}(5,5)$	3.89 (2.83, 5.37)	6.53 (3.37, 17.64)	1.05 (0.48, 2.16)
	log(I M O R i,k)= log(ϕ i,k) ∼ Normal(0,1)	4.09 (2.86, 5.90)	8.60 (3.64, 35.41)	1.39 (0.66, 3.00)