boutliers-package {boutliers}

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. 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. doi:10.1002/jrsm.11