{"id":1670,"date":"2018-06-15T19:14:31","date_gmt":"2018-06-16T00:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathewkiang.com\/?p=1670"},"modified":"2020-09-11T10:48:56","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T15:48:56","slug":"our-nejm-paper-mortality-in-puerto-rico-after-hurricane-maria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewkiangcom.local\/2018\/06\/15\/our-nejm-paper-mortality-in-puerto-rico-after-hurricane-maria\/","title":{"rendered":"Our <i>NEJM<\/i> paper &#8220;Mortality in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<span  class=\"x-dropcap\" >H<\/span>ere is a non-exhaustive list of materials related to our new paper in\u00a0<em>New England Journal of Medicine<\/em>, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMsa1803972\">Mortality\u00a0in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria<\/a>.&#8221; While I normally just link to my papers, this particular paper garnered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altmetric.com\/details\/42915562#score\">a significant amount of attention<\/a>\u00a0and was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/metrics\/10.1056\/NEJMsa1803972\">viewed over 100,000 times<\/a>. Not all the attention was good, accurate, or fair \u2014 but that is for another post.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Below, I list resources related to the paper with minimal commentary.<\/p>\n<h3>Data and Code<\/h3>\n<p>As strong believers in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/115\/11\/2584\">the importance of transparent, reproducible research<\/a>, all our code and data was made available on <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/c2-d2\/pr_mort_official\">the official Github repository<\/a>\u00a0at the time of publication. This repository\u00a0is constantly evolving\u00a0to reflect input\u00a0from others; however, the\u00a0original code (at the time of publication<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">)<\/span> is\u00a0tagged under <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/c2-d2\/pr_mort_official\/releases\">the <code>paper<\/code>\u00a0release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Additional Official Resources<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/c2-d2\/pr_mort_official\/blob\/master\/misc\/faq.md\">Frequently asked questions<\/a> (and <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/c2-d2\/pr_mort_official\/blob\/master\/misc\/faq.md\">in Spanish<\/a>). Includes answers to fascinating questions like &#8220;What is a confidence interval?&#8221; and &#8220;How many people died?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/c2-d2\/pr_mort_official\/blob\/master\/misc\/PR_Mortalidad.pdf\">paper in Spanish<\/a>\u00a0because dissemination of findings to our target audience and research population is vitally important.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/htmlpreview.github.io\/?https:\/\/github.com\/c2-d2\/pr_mort_official\/blob\/master\/misc\/inquiries.html\">Responses to common media inquiries<\/a>\u00a0particularly about person-time.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/htmlpreview.github.io\/?https:\/\/github.com\/c2-d2\/pr_mort_official\/blob\/master\/misc\/technical-faq.html\">Post-publication analyses<\/a> (i.e., a more technical FAQ) that highlights some analyses we did but did not publish.<\/li>\n<li>An <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/c2-d2\/pr_mort_official\/blob\/master\/misc\/original_PR_survey_instrument.xml\">XML of the original survey instrument<\/a> exactly as asked (in both English and Spanish) with the answer choices and introduction script.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Other Resources<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Rafa Irizarry <a href=\"https:\/\/simplystatistics.org\/2018\/06\/08\/a-first-look-at-recently-released-official-puerto-rico-death-count-data\/\">analyzes new data<\/a>\u00a0released after our paper was published.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/andrewgelman.com\/2018\/06\/01\/data-code-study-puerto-rico-deaths\/\">Andrew Gelman<\/a> gives his thoughts on our paper.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hsph.harvard.edu\/news\/press-releases\/death-rate-increase-puerto-rico-hurricane-maria\/\">official Harvard press release<\/a> with confidence intervals everywhere and no specific number in the headline.<\/li>\n<li>Rafa provides <a href=\"https:\/\/simplystatistics.org\/2018\/09\/28\/the-complex-process-of-obtaining-puerto-rico-mortality-data-a-timeline\/\">a detailed account of the timeline<\/a> of our paper (including our requests for government death certificate data).<\/li>\n<li>Rafa and Rolando publish a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biorxiv.org\/content\/early\/2018\/09\/18\/407874\">pre-print examining daily death certificate data<\/a>, including cause of death.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ere is a non-exhaustive list of materials related to our new paper in\u00a0New England Journal of Medicine, &#8220;Mortality\u00a0in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.&#8221; While I normally just link to my papers, this particular paper garnered a significant amount of attention\u00a0and was viewed over 100,000 times. 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