Fig. 3

Posterior densities of the direct (blue line) and indirect (black line) log ORs for 14 target comparisons from the thrombolytics network (first example). The grey area and vertical line indicate the inconsistency’s 95% interval (approximated using the reported posterior mean and standard deviation) and posterior mean. The average information loss (\({D}^{j}\)) appear at the top left of each plot. The plots have been sorted in ascending order of the \({D}^{j}\) values. The x-axis and y-axis values vary across all plots. Green and orange \({D}^{j}\) values indicate acceptably low and material inconsistency. The threshold of 0.64 was employed