Estimating the impact of physical distancing measures in containing COVID-19: an empirical analysis
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SciScore for 10.1101/2020.06.11.20128074: (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
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources All regression analyses were performed in Stata 14 (StataCorp LLC). StataCorpsuggested: (Stata, RRID:SCR_012763)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:Our study has several limitations. First, although we controlled for several country characteristics, our model could suffer from omitted variable bias as behavioural variables, such as mask wearing, were …
SciScore for 10.1101/2020.06.11.20128074: (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
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources All regression analyses were performed in Stata 14 (StataCorp LLC). StataCorpsuggested: (Stata, RRID:SCR_012763)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:Our study has several limitations. First, although we controlled for several country characteristics, our model could suffer from omitted variable bias as behavioural variables, such as mask wearing, were unaccounted for due to lack of data. Second, beyond physical distancing measures, other NPIs such as early case isolation and aggressive contact tracing and quarantine are critical elements of a successful containment strategy (Ferguson et al. 2020), which we could not control for, again due to the lack of data. Third, although a significant amount of effort has been put into the construction of the OxCGRT database with a global coverage and a systematic classification of government policies, there could be some reporting errors or data quality issues. Moreover, our country-level analysis may miss the variation of policies implemented at the city/county/province level. Nonetheless, the database is the most comprehensive to date.
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.
Results from rtransparent:- Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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- No protocol registration statement was detected.
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