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Table 4 Overview of the identification of global inconsistency in the antidepressants example for all evaluated methods

From: A simulation study to compare different estimation approaches for network meta-analysis and corresponding methods to evaluate the consistency assumption

MTC

netmeta

SR

DEVres

DIC

Qtotal

Itotal2

Qincon

Iincon2

Lev

−

−

+

−

−

−

+

  1. +Global inconsistency
  2. -No global inconsistency