Übersetzt: André Calero Valdez (+ DeepL). Soll man nun Masken tragen oder nicht? Sicher, es ist kompliziert. Aber nicht so kompliziert, wie manche Leute unterstellen. Wir haben uns die Forschung angeschaut (siehe unsere Veröffentlichungen “Face Masks Against COVID-19: An Evidence Review” - mit 84 Referenzen! - und “Face masks for the public during the covid-19 crisis”). Hier ist eine Zusammenfassung der verschiedenen Evidenzströme und unsere Einschätzung, was das alles bedeutet.

Overview Since the term “Simulation” or modeling was used frequently in the media recently to get an understanding of the spread of covid-19, I have created an instructive agent-based model for the simulation of disease spread and limited hospital capacities. Since this model is only “instructive” for the purpose of understanding modeling, I have also created a video to explain the model and some implications due to the simplicity of the design.

The website regexr.com provides a well developed tool for testing regular expression on the fly. Even better, it has a set of working patterns and lets you store your own patterns for later reuse. I highly recommend to test it: https://regexr.com/

Overview Writing a research report using RMarkdown allows you to start your analysis even before you have collected the data. This is especially helpful in report writing and thesis writing. When you, web-crawler, or a panel are still collecting data, you can already start writing the thesis. However, writing results before having the data is somewhat challenging. Keep in mind that writing a discussion before having collected the data is a lot harder.

Today I updated the rmdtemplates package on github. It now supports PocketMods: Tiny little 8 paged books that you can now author in Markdown.

Check it out at http://www.github.com/statisticsforsocialscience/rmd_templates