[PRE REVIEW]: epipack: An infectious disease modeling package for Python

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Submitting author: @benmaier (Benjamin F. Maier) Repository: https://github.com/benmaier/epipack Version: v0.1.1 Editor: @fboehm Reviewers: @chrisvoncsefalvay, @esteinig Managing EiC: Daniel S. Katz

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Statistical information for the repository '99525284b8947d0d4d4fcb70' was
gathered on 2021/03/04.
The following historical commit information, by author, was found:

Author                     Commits    Insertions      Deletions    % of changes
Ben F. Maier                    12           473             96            2.12
Benjamin Maier                 130         20924           5343           97.88

Below are the number of rows from each author that have survived and are still
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Ben F. Maier              15940         3370.0          5.7                7.67

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Reference check summary (note 'MISSING' DOIs are suggestions that need verification):

OK DOIs

- 10.1007/BF02464423 is OK
- 10.1021/j100540a008 is OK
- 10.1186/1471-2334-11-37 is OK
- 10.18637/jss.v084.i08 is OK
- 10.6084/m9.figshare.1164194 is OK
- 10.21105/joss.01731 is OK
- 10.1016/j.physrep.2020.07.005 is OK
- 10.1016/j.cpc.2019.02.008 is OK
- 10.7717/peerj-cs.103 is OK
- 10.1038/s41592-019-0686-2 is OK
- 10.18452/20950 is OK
- 10.1016/j.jtbi.2011.07.015 is OK
- 10.21105/joss.00565 is OK
- 10.1007/978-3-319-50806-1 is OK

MISSING DOIs

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INVALID DOIs

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[danielskatz]

👋 @fboehm - would you be able to edit this submission?

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[fboehm]

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[fboehm]

@danielskatz - yes, I'm happy to take this one :)

[benmaier]

Thank you so much for the swift response, @danielskatz and @fboehm!

May I kindly suggest the following people as potential reviewers:

• Guillaume St-Onge
• Jean-Gabriel Young
• Antoine Allard
• Christian Vestergaard
• Joel C. Miller

[fboehm]

@benmaier - We greatly appreciate the suggested reviewers. Do you happen to have email addresses and github handles for them? If so, would you please email me - frederick.boehm@gmail.com - with the contact info for the suggested reviewers? Thanks again!!

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[esteinig]

Happy to review this @fboehm

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