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Rmd 1c7efea Ziang Zhang 2026-09-01 Refine supplementary table explorer views
html ead8b95 Ziang Zhang 2026-09-01 build: publish supplementary table explorer
Rmd 3f3cefd Ziang Zhang 2026-09-01 feat: add interactive supplementary table explorer
Rmd c55510f Ziang Zhang 2026-09-01 feat: add coverage-aware supplementary grouping
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The frozen supplementary bundle presents every cohort in the current analysis contract without loading fitted models in the browser. It contains 1,119 registered geography-by-age-by-sex analyses: 1,118 successful compact posterior-predictive results and one explicitly retained historical model failure.

Interactive exploration

Explorer Available selections Output
Time series and pointwise P-scores Analysis family, geography, age group, sex, and display metric Observed mortality, expected mortality with a 95% posterior predictive interval, or the pointwise P-score curve
Wave-specific maps Region, age group, sex, Initial/Alpha/Delta/Omicron wave, and posterior summary Interactive geographic P-score or excess-death maps with exact values in an accessible table
Vaccination-group trajectories P-score or female-minus-male P-score difference, Europe or United States, original age group, two vaccination thresholds, and manual location membership Recomputed low- and high-vaccination trajectories with panel-specific coverage screening, manuscript presets, uncertainty intervals, and downloadable current membership
Wave-specific P-score table Switchable sex-stratified and total-population tables, global search, every-column filters, sorting, page size, and pagination Wave-specific P-score summaries for all registered geographies and original age groups, with vaccination metadata where comparable

The chart pages load only the shard required by the current selection, and the table page loads a compact sub-megabyte summary index. They therefore remain static GitHub Pages files rather than a server process, while still exposing the full registered stratification set. The vaccination explorer adds approximately 25 MB of summary-only browser assets; fitted objects remain local.

Frozen scope

Analysis family Registered cohorts Time scale
Eurostat Europe 388 Weekly
United States, non-sex-stratified 204 Monthly
United States, sex-stratified 408 Monthly
Canada, non-sex-stratified 40 Weekly
Canada, sex-stratified 72 Weekly
England and Wales 3 Weekly
Republic of Ireland 4 Quarterly

The United States branch Vermont / 0-44 / female is retained in the registry with status model_failed; no value is imputed. Superseded Europe, England-and-Wales, and Ireland model batches, and unregistered United States age_all files, are not mixed into this frozen analysis contract.

Summary definitions

For each successful cohort, the bundle records observed deaths, the expected posterior mean and median, the central 95% posterior predictive interval, and the pointwise P-score distribution. Interactive mortality charts use the posterior median as their center line. This matters for a small number of sparse cohorts where extreme posterior draws can pull the mean outside the central interval; the downloadable table retains both summaries without truncation.

Wave summaries use the four half-open intervals fixed in config/analysis.yml:

  • Initial: March 1, 2020 to November 1, 2020;
  • Alpha: November 1, 2020 to July 1, 2021;
  • Delta: July 1, 2021 to January 1, 2022;
  • Omicron: January 1, 2022 to April 1, 2024.

For a wave with observed periods, the wave P-score is computed draw by draw as

\[ P = \frac{\sum_t Y_t - \sum_t E_t}{\sum_t E_t}, \]

before posterior quantiles are taken. It is not an average of pointwise P-scores.

Rebuild command

The bundle is derived from the registered observed-data snapshots and existing compact posterior-predictive objects. It does not refit a model.

system2(
  "Rscript",
  "scripts/supplementary/build_bundle.R"
)
system2(
  "Rscript",
  "scripts/supplementary/build_vaccination_groups.R"
)
system2(
  "Rscript",
  "scripts/supplementary/build_table_explorer.R"
)

sessionInfo()
R version 4.5.1 (2025-06-13)
Platform: aarch64-apple-darwin20
Running under: macOS Sequoia 15.6.1

Matrix products: default
BLAS:   /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/libBLAS.dylib 
LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.5-arm64/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib;  LAPACK version 3.12.1

locale:
[1] C.UTF-8/C.UTF-8/C.UTF-8/C/C.UTF-8/C.UTF-8

time zone: America/Chicago
tzcode source: internal

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices datasets  utils     methods   base     

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 [5] xfun_0.55       stringi_1.8.9   otel_0.2.0      renv_1.1.5     
 [9] promises_1.5.0  jsonlite_2.0.0  workflowr_1.7.2 glue_1.8.1     
[13] rprojroot_2.1.1 git2r_0.36.2    htmltools_0.5.9 httpuv_1.6.16  
[17] sass_0.4.10     rmarkdown_2.30  evaluate_1.0.5  jquerylib_0.1.4
[21] tibble_3.3.0    fastmap_1.2.0   yaml_2.3.12     lifecycle_1.0.5
[25] whisker_0.4.1   stringr_1.6.0   compiler_4.5.1  fs_1.6.6       
[29] Rcpp_1.1.1-1.1  pkgconfig_2.0.3 later_1.4.4     digest_0.6.39  
[33] R6_2.6.1        pillar_1.11.1   magrittr_2.0.5  bslib_0.9.0    
[37] tools_4.5.1     cachem_1.1.0