TY - JOUR AU - Veroniki, Areti Angeliki AU - Mavridis, Dimitris AU - Higgins, Julian PT AU - Salanti, Georgia PY - 2014 DA - 2014/09/19 TI - Characteristics of a loop of evidence that affect detection and estimation of inconsistency: a simulation study JO - BMC Medical Research Methodology SP - 106 VL - 14 IS - 1 AB - The assumption of consistency, defined as agreement between direct and indirect sources of evidence, underlies the increasingly popular method of network meta-analysis. This assumption is often evaluated by statistically testing for a difference between direct and indirect estimates within each loop of evidence. However, the test is believed to be underpowered. We aim to evaluate its properties when applied to a loop typically found in published networks. SN - 1471-2288 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-14-106 DO - 10.1186/1471-2288-14-106 ID - Veroniki2014 ER -