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Augmenting a randomized controlled trial (RCT) with external data may increase power at the risk of introducing bias. To select and analyze the experiment (RCT alone or combined with external data) with the optimal bias-variance tradeoff, we develop a novel experiment-selector cross-validated targeted maximum likelihood estimator for randomized-external data studies (ES-CVTMLE). This estimator utilizes two estimates of bias to determine whether to integrate external data based on (1) a function of the difference in conditional mean outcome under control between the RCT and combined experiments and (2) an estimate of the average treatment effect on a negative control outcome. We define the asymptotic distribution of the ES-CVTMLE under varying magnitudes of bias and construct confidence intervals by Monte Carlo simulation. We evaluate ES-CVTMLE compared to three other data fusion estimators in simulations and demonstrate the ability of ES-CVTMLE to distinguish biased from unbiased external controls in a real data analysis of the effect of liraglutide on glycemic control from the LEADER trial. The ES-CVTMLE has the potential to improve power while providing relatively robust inference for future hybrid RCT-external data studies.

Experiment-selector cross-validated targeted maximum likelihood estimator for hybrid RCT-external data studies