Reanalysis of causal effect analysis of school closure on COVID-19 in Fukumoto et al. (2021)

Source code accompanying a manuscript Endo "‘Not finding causal effect’ is not ‘finding no causal effect’ of school closure on COVID-19", which is a correspondence to Fukumoto et al. "No causal effect of school closures in Japan on the spread of COVID-19 in spring 2020". https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01571-8

Main files

• main.ipynb/.html: Jupyter Notebook reanalysing Fukumoto et al.

Licence

MIT

Acknowledgement

The replication code for the original study has been partially modified and reused.

Dependencies

• R ver. 4.1.0
• {sandwitch} ver. 3.0
• {tidyverse} ver. 1.3.1
• {zoo} ver. 1.8
• {CBPS} ver. 0.22
• {MASS} ver. 7.3
• {glmnet} ver. 4.1
• {glmnetUtils} ver. 1.1.8
• {survey} ver. 4.1
• {matrixStats} ver. 0.61.0
• {cobalt} ver. 4.3.1
• {MatchIt} ver. 4.3.0
• {WeightIt} ver. 0.12.0
• {data.table} ver. 1.14.0
• {repr} ver. 1.1.3
• {IRkernel} ver. 1.2
• Python ver. 3.9.5
• Jupyterlab ver. 3.0.16

Authors

Akira Endo