Excess Deaths and New Data: Beginning a New Replication of Chakraborty’s Study
For my final project, I returned to Chakraborty’s study to do a reanalysis using excess deaths instead of COVID-19 deaths, using data from 2020 rather than 2...
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Geographic Threats to Validity in Chakraborty’s Study
One geographic threat to validity for our Chakraborty reproduction study includes spatial heterogeneity; there are distinct areas where the pandemic spread e...
Reflecting on the Kang Study
With the Kang study, we continued to work with Python, which is a new programming language to me. I gained more familiarity reading Python syntax and working...
Smooth Sailing with the Spielman Study
For this reproduction, we were interested to know if weighting the SoVI components by percent variance would improve internal consistency or theoretical cons...
Social Vulnerability Models and the Importance of their Reproducibility and Replicibility
It is important to reproduce social vulnerability models because they are an important way in which scientists are responding to environmental hazards. Makin...