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Illustration of Two Fusion Designs and Estimators
Challenge
Fusion study designs—which combine data from multiple sources to answer questions no single source can address—lacked practical epidemiologic examples demonstrating their implementation and estimation in approachable worked cases.
Solution
Target RWE researchers and UNC collaborators published two illustrative fusion design examples in the American Journal of Epidemiology—one transporting a proportion to a target population and one correcting for measurement error—using HIV research as the motivating application.