Ananthu89/James-Dalal-Kousi-et-al-BJMGH-2022

This repository was created for the below paper in BMJ Global Health, exploring how and why different African countries differed in their response to the COVID pandemic # James-Dalal-Kousi-et-al-BJMGH-2022 The R Markdown (Rmd) file containing the script for statistical analyses described in the article James, Dalal, Kousi, et al., BMJ Gloabl Health, 2022 (medrxiv.org) along with the associated datafile (in csv format). The details of the analyses, the variables, etc. are explained in the original article. In the datafile, SI in columns 5-7 denotes stringency index. The next two columns give the difference in stringency index. Stringency_Index_Peak indicates stringency index corresponding to the date when the daily incidence from a country was the highest during the period under consideration. Other variable names are intuitive, and it should not be hard for someone who has familiarity with English language to understand the meaning of the symbols. If still there is any difficulty in understanding the script (or the symbols), please contact the corresponding author (Email address: ananthu89jms@gmail.com).