Using Big Data to Emulate a Target Trial When a Randomized Trial Is Not Available: Table 1.
Using Big Data to Emulate a Target Trial When a Randomized Trial Is Not Available: Table 1.
Ideally, questions about comparative effectiveness or safety would be answered using an appropriately designed and conducted randomized experiment. When we cannot conduct a randomized experiment, we analyze observational data. Causal inference from large observational databases (big data) can be viewed as an attempt to emulate a randomized experiment—the target experiment …