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The Economist's model to estimate excess deaths to the covid-19 pandemic

4 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 1 story, 3 comments · first 2021-05-25 · latest 2023-05-27

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  1. It might be worth generating a version that excludes Russia and Ukraine. https://github.com/TheEconomist/covid-19-the-economist-globa...
  2. It has nothing to do with PCR tests. The Economist based their estimate on a ML analysis based on excess mortality estimates. [0] https://github.com/TheEconomist/covid-19-the-economist-globa... [1] https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortalit…
  3. So, I'm not an R guy, but I pawed through some of the code. I get what you're saying, there's an environment, it needs to be just so, or it won't work. that's fine. And yeah, it does feel a lot like SQL. I would point out this guy -…
    comment by jfoutz · 2021-05-25 · in The Economist's excess deaths model
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