Excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic: a geospatial and statistical analysis in Mogadishu, Somalia
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SciScore for 10.1101/2021.05.15.21256976: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.Table 2: Resources
No key resources detected.
Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:Limitations: Systematic or random error may have arisen from the method for imputing missing grave counts. Extrapolation from limited area samples to fill in some of the starting values likely increased error. Moreover, the model to impute missing graves had moderate precision, likely due to the low number of observations used to train …
SciScore for 10.1101/2021.05.15.21256976: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.Table 2: Resources
No key resources detected.
Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:Limitations: Systematic or random error may have arisen from the method for imputing missing grave counts. Extrapolation from limited area samples to fill in some of the starting values likely increased error. Moreover, the model to impute missing graves had moderate precision, likely due to the low number of observations used to train it. Further error may have arisen from problems with counting individual graves in satellite images. The above sources of error arise from different statistical processes and are difficult to combine into a single estimation framework: as such, we were unable to produce realistic confidence intervals for the estimates. Overall, there was strong evidence that our estimates of burials per population were a considerable under-estimate of the plausible death rate in the Banadir region: this may have been due to insensitivity of imagery analysis, failure to comprehensively identify and analyse all burial sites used by the population, decedents being buried in their communities of origin outside Banadir region, and/or burials taking place in informal plots (e.g. nearby private residences). Scaling the baseline burial rate to a more plausible CDR level rests on a strong assumption that the under-estimation bias of our method remains approximately constant over time. Satellite imagery analysis was undertaken retrospectively, meaning there were constraints with the data available being limited to what had already been sporadically collected by VHR satel...
Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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- No protocol registration statement was detected.
Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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