[PRE REVIEW]: simstudy: Illuminating research methods through data generation

[whedon]

Submitting author: @assignUser (Jacob Wujciak-Jens)
Repository: https://github.com/kgoldfeld/simstudy/
Version: v0.2.1
Editor: @mikldk
Reviewers: @gagolews, @brunaw
Managing EiC: Daniel S. Katz

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Software report (experimental):

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Statistical information for the repository '154f9557d81823d24e0f4982' was
gathered on 2020/10/18.
The following historical commit information, by author, was found:

Author                     Commits    Insertions      Deletions    % of changes
James Joseph Balamut             2            10             26            4.24
Keith Goldfeld                  24           487            326           95.76

Below are the number of rows from each author that have survived and are still
intact in the current revision:

Author                     Rows      Stability          Age       % in comments
James Joseph Balamut          9           90.0         27.5                0.00
Keith Goldfeld              136           27.9          2.8                5.88

[whedon]

PDF failed to compile for issue #2760 with the following error:

Can't find any papers to compile :-(

[danielskatz]

@whedon generate pdf from branch joss-submission

[whedon]

Attempting PDF compilation from custom branch joss-submission. Reticulating splines etc...

[whedon]

👉📄 Download article proof 📄 View article proof on GitHub 📄 👈

[danielskatz]

@whedon check references from branch joss-submission

[whedon]

Attempting to check references... from custom branch joss-submission

[whedon]

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

OK DOIs

- 10.18637/jss.v037.i03 is OK
- 10.1016/j.jbusvent.2019.02.001 is OK
- 10.20982/tqmp.16.4.p248 is OK
- 10.1007/s40273-020-00946-y is OK
- 10.1080/00031305.1991.10475828 is OK
- 10.1111/dmcn.14552 is OK
- 10.18637/jss.v069.i04 is OK
- 10.31234/osf.io/59uaq is OK
- 10.1002/sim.8452 is OK
- 10.1097/MLR.0000000000001063 is OK
- 10.1080/03610918.2012.718841 is OK
- 10.1101/215889 is OK
- 10.1007/s10463-020-00761-4 is OK
- 10.1186/s13063-019-3364-x is OK

MISSING DOIs

- None

INVALID DOIs

- None

[danielskatz]

👋 @mikldk - would you be willing to edit this submission?

[danielskatz]

@whedon invite @mikldk as editor

[whedon]

@mikldk has been invited to edit this submission.

[mikldk]

@whedon assign me as editor

[whedon]

OK, the editor is @mikldk

[assignUser]

Thank you for considering our submission and the quick start of the process!

Potential reviewers from the provided list with no active reviews, R/C++ and relevant topics, sorted bottom to top:
j-andrews7
gagolews
brunaw
tbrown122387
pedro-teles-fonseca

[mikldk]

@brunaw, @gagolews: Would you be interested in reviewing this submission to The Journal of Open Source Software? Reviews are open and based on a checklist. The reviewer guidelines are available here: https://joss.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reviewer_guidelines.html. If you have any questions or concerns please let me know.

[gagolews]

@mikldk I'm willing to write a review.

[brunaw]

@mikldk Yes, I would be happy to

[mikldk]

@whedon add @gagolews as reviewer

[whedon]

OK, @gagolews is now a reviewer

[mikldk]

@whedon add @brunaw as reviewer

[whedon]

OK, @brunaw is now a reviewer

[mikldk]

@whedon start review

[whedon]

OK, I've started the review over in #2763.