TheEconomist/covid-19-the-economist-global-excess-deaths-model
The Economist's model to estimate excess deaths to the covid-19 pandemic
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The Economist's excess deaths model This repository contains the replication code and data for *The Economist*'s excess deaths model, used to estimate excess deaths due to the covid-19 pandemic. Getting started Before running the R scripts, please install all the dependencies listed in this file. Keep in mind that you need to use a modified development version of agtboost, which has been rewritten to load machine learning ensembles faster (our approach requires loading 210 of these).
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