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The Effect of Average Temperature on Suicide Rates in Five Urban California Counties, 1999–⁠2019: An Ecological Study

The Effect of Average Temperature on Suicide Rates in Five Urban California Counties, 1999–⁠2019: An Ecological Time Series Analysis

Analysis code in R for the manuscript "The Effect of Average Temperature on Suicide Rates in Five Urban California Counties, 1999–⁠2019: An Ecological Time Series Analysis" by Sierra Cheng, Rebecca Plouffe, Stephanie M. Nanos, Mavra Qamar, David N. Fisman, and Jean-Paul R. Soucy.

Citation

Cheng, S., Plouffe, R., Nanos, S.M. et al. The effect of average temperature on suicide rates in five urban California counties, 1999–⁠2019: an ecological time series analysis. BMC Public Health 21, 974 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-11001-6

Running this code

First, verify the required R packages are installed (see "load packages" at the beginning of the script). Next, run the script california-counties-suicide-and-temperature.R from the root directory. This can be achieved by either loading the project file california-counties-suicide-and-temperature.Rproj in RStudio or using setwd(). All required data has been provided in the data directory.

Notes

This analysis was produced using R 4.0.3 but any modern version of R should work.