News | ADDIS 2 release 15

ADDIS 2 release 15

11 Mar 2019 — Daan Reid

We are proud to announce ADDIS 2 release 15. This release contains the following new features and improvements:

  • Added support for a structured Excel format for both export and import of studies and datasets. Its specification can be found here
  • Added support for data entry and analysis of several types of contrast data (e.g. hazard ratio, odds ratio).
  • Improvements to the benefit-risk analysis component, both the stand-alone MCDA component and the submodule of ADDIS:
    • Added ‘Settings’ screen, letting users control the workspace and effects tables.
    • Added support for multiple data sources for a single criterion.
    • Added ‘Matching’ preference elicitation method.
    • Users can now download the problem of a workspace as a JSON file on the overview tab.

The full list of changes can be found at the bottom of this post.

  • ADDIS
    • Features
      • Created an Excel file format that allows import and export of studies and datasets to ADDIS.
      • Added support for study contrast data (data entry, network meta-analysis, benefit-risk analysis).

      • User interface improvements
        • Added loading indicators when the system is busy.
        • Front page: users list no longer goes off screen.
        • Study entry: increased input validation for measurements.
        • Study entry: warn users when there are duplicate concept mappings.
    • Bugfixes
      • Restored missing error messages for network meta-analysis creation.
      • Enable editing dataset names.
      • D80-table fixes for unknown values and missing primary measurement
      • Fixed autocomplete for drugs and units in drug treatment creation.
      • Fixed breadcrumbs
      • Project report: links now check whether benefit-risk analyses are finalized.
      • Drug treatments now require at least one drug.
  • MCDA
    • Features
      • Added ‘Settings’ screen, letting users control the workspace and effects table.
      • Settings added:
        • Effects table display modes:
          • ‘Effects’ - shows input as entered for effects, and the median/mode for distributions.
          • ‘Source data’ - Shows input as entered for effects, and the parameters for distributions.
          • ‘Deterministic MCDA’ - shows only effect point estimates, no confidence interval.
          • ‘SMAA’ - shows effects as calculated by SMAA, i.e. by sampling from their distributions.
        • Toggle between mode and median for the effects table SMAA display mode.
        • Toggle between between percentage and decimal display of dichotomous and cumulative probability effects.
      • Effects table improvements:
        • Allow hiding of non-alternative columns.
        • Added ‘Strength of evidence’ and ‘Uncertainty’ columns.
      • Preferences improvements:
        • Added a ‘willingness to trade off’ chart, letting the user explore the weight space via acceptability curves.
        • Changed Swing Weighting elicitation, now supporting direct weight setting, both precise and imprecise.
        • Added Matching preference elicitation method.
      • Added support for multiple data sources for a single criterion.
      • Added the ability to edit new copies of existing workspaces.
      • Let users change labels in several figures to help with overcrowded plots.
      • Support SSL certificate-based user authentication.
      • Users can now download the problem of a workspace as a JSON file on the overview tab.
      • Criteria and alternatives can now be reordered on the overview tab.
      • Uploaded JSON files are now checked for validity, showing a warning for invalid files.
      • Manual input improvements:
        • More input validation and error feedback.
        • Added support for NE (not estimable) values.
        • Added support for empty cells.
    • Minor changes
      • Display unit of measurement during partial value function creation.
      • Changed the way criteria are displayed on the overview tab.
      • Manual input:
        • Favourability is now optional.
        • Values calculated from inputs are now being rounded.
        • Units, references, and description are now shown during data entry.
        • Allow reordering criteria and alternatives.
      • Toggling effects table columns is now workspace-wide.
      • Effects table descriptions are now always fully shown.
      • Moved weights table to deterministic analysis tab.
      • Ranking preference elicitation can now be cancelled.
      • Ask for scenario name on creation instead randomly generating one.
      • SMAA tab is now disabled if there is no uncertainty.
      • Allow changing of criterions’ favourability.
      • Show favourability in every effects table.
    • Bugfixes
      • Manual input:
        • Only make references clickable if they are URLs.
        • While adding a criterion, the button now says ‘add’ instead of ‘edit’.
        • Clicking the normal distribution checkbox no longer closes the dropdown.
        • Refreshing the page no longer causes the table in step 2 to disappear.
        • It is no longer possible to enter 0% for a dichotomous effect.
        • Fix bug preventing criteria from being deleted
        • Input popup in step 2 no longer becomes very small if there are many alternatives.
      • Fixed math formula display in the manual.
      • Subproblem creation:
        • Fix several scale range errors.
        • Baseline alternatives can no longer be deselected after renaming them.
        • Theoretical scale ranges are now considered during creation.
      • Fix missing criterion name during partial value function creation.
      • Improve support for special characters in names.
      • Fix central weights table in case there’s no hits.
      • The default problem now has configured ranges.
  • All
    • Features
      • Give each page a title, making browser history informative
      • Improve build process and stability using yarn and webpack.
      • Concatenate and minify javascript and html, decreasing page loading time.
    • Minor changes
      • Added more contextual help icons, select better locations in the manual for help links.
      • Unify look of the manual across our web applications.
    • Bugfixes
      • IE11 fixes:
        • sliders, modals and R results.
      • Various other bugfixes.