Do Public Health Efforts Matter? Explaining Cross-Country Heterogeneity in Excess Death During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-43407-0

The code used to produce all the results and figures in the paper can be found in analysis/code/ and the data can be found in analysis/data/.

To reproduce the main results in the paper, please run the following:

1. Unzip analysis/data/raw/variable_csv.zip and unzip analysis/data/raw/WHO_excess_death.zip
2. If you want to run from scratch including the data pre-processing step, then run analysis/code/data_preprocessing/main.R which will populate the preprocessed folder. This is not necessary as the preprocessed dataset used in the paper are already in analysis/data/preprocessed/.
3. Gradient Boosting and Random Forest models: analysis/code/analysis_word_GBMandRF.Rmd.
4. Linear models: analysis/code/analysis_word_linearModels.Rmd.
5. For the boostrap confidence intervals of delta run analysis/code/bootstrap_delta.R.
6. For the bootstrap hypothesis test run analysis/code/hypothesis_test.R.