boutliers-package: The 'boutliers' package.

In boutliers: Outlier Detection and Influence Diagnostics for Meta-Analysis

The 'boutliers' package.

Description

Computational tools for implementing outlier detection and influence diagnostics for meta-analysis. Bootstrap distributions of the influence statistics are calculated, and the thresholds to determine outliers are provided.

References

Hedges, L. V., and Olkins, I. (1985). Statistical Methods for Meta-Analysis. New York: Academic Press.

Noma, H., Gosho, M., Ishii, R., Oba, K., and Furukawa, T. A. (2020). Outlier detection and influence diagnostics in network meta-analysis. Research Synthesis Methods. 11(6): 891-902. \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1002/jrsm.1455")}

Viechtbauer, W., and Cheung, M. W. (2010). Outlier and influence diagnostics for meta-analysis. Research Synthesis Methods. 1(2): 112-125. \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1002/jrsm.11")}

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