c(person("Boyang", "Lu", email = "lu000083@umn.edu",
role = c("aut", "cre")),
person("Qinshu", "Lian", email = "lianx025@umn.edu",
role = c("aut")),
person("Xiaoye", "Ma", email = "xiaoye1043@gmail.com",
role = c("aut")),
person("Yong", "Chen", email = "ychen123@mail.med.upenn.edu",
role = c("aut")),
person("James S.", "Hodges", email = "hodge003@umn.edu",
role = c("aut")),
person("Joseph G.", "Ibrahim", email = " jibrahim@email.unc.edu",
role = c("aut")),
person("Haitao", "Chu", email = "chux0051@umn.edu",
role = c("aut"))
)
Boyang Lu [aut, cre],
Qinshu Lian [aut],
Xiaoye Ma [aut],
Yong Chen [aut],
James S. Hodges [aut],
Joseph G. Ibrahim [aut],
Haitao Chu [aut]

c(person("Boyang", "Lu", email = "lu000083@umn.edu",
role = c("aut", "cre")),
person("Qinshu", "Lian", email = "lianx025@umn.edu",
role = c("aut")),
person("James S.", "Hodges", email = "hodge003@umn.edu",
role = c("aut")),
person("Yong", "Chen", email = "ychen123@mail.med.upenn.edu",
role = c("aut")),
person("Haitao", "Chu", email = "chux0051@umn.edu",
role = c("aut"))
)
Boyang Lu [aut, cre],
Qinshu Lian [aut],
James S. Hodges [aut],
Yong Chen [aut],
Haitao Chu [aut]

Detecting Outliers in Network Meta-Analysis
c(person("Maria", "Petropoulou",
role = c("aut", "cre"),
email = "mpetrop@cc.uoi.gr",
comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-7147-3644")),
person("Guido", "Schwarzer",
role = "aut",
comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-6214-9087")),
person("Agapios", "Panos",
role = "aut"),
person("Dimitris", "Mavridis",
role = "aut",
comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-1041-4592")))
A set of functions providing the forward search algorithm for detecting outlying studies (i.e., studies with extreme findings) in network meta-analysis:
- provides the length of the initial subset for forward search algorithm;
- iterations of forward search algorithm;
- basic set of studies in each step of forward search algorithm;
- summary estimates and their confidence intervals in each step of forward search algorithm;
- outlying case diagnostics measures;
- ranking measures;
- heterogeneity and inconsistency measures;
- forward plot for summary estimates and their confidence intervals;
- forward plots for monitored measures: outlying case diagnostics measures, ranking measures, heterogeneity, and inconsistency measures.
Maria Petropoulou [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7147-3644>),
Guido Schwarzer [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6214-9087>),
Agapios Panos [aut],
Dimitris Mavridis [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1041-4592>)