InfluenceBorrowing - Adaptive Influence-Based Borrowing for Hybrid Control Trials
Implements the adaptive influence-based borrowing
framework proposed by Qinwei Yang, Jingyi Li, Peng Wu, and Shu
Yang (2026+) in the paper ``Improving Treatment Effect
Estimation in Trials through Adaptive Borrowing of External
Controls" <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2604.13973> for augmenting
Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) with External Control (EC)
data. This package provides a comprehensive workflow to: (1)
quantify the comparability of external control samples using
influence scores approximated via the influence function of the
M-estimator; (2) construct candidate borrowing subsets and
select the optimal subset that minimizes the Mean Squared Error
(MSE); and (3) calibrate systematic differences in external
outcomes using R-learner methods implemented via Ordinary Least
Squares or Kernel Ridge Regression.