Detecting outlying trials in network meta-analysis.
Zhang Jing, Fu Haoda, Carlin Bradley P·Statistics in medicine
Network meta-analysis (NMA) expands the scope of a conventional pairwise meta-analysis to simultaneously handle multiple treatment comparisons. However, some trials may appear to deviate markedly from the others and thus be inappropriate to be synthesized in the NMA. In addition, the inclusion of these trials in eviden…