From population-and-development-review-skills
Guides construction of demographic rates, life tables, decompositions, and survival models with honest uncertainty for Population and Development Review manuscripts.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
Slash command
/population-and-development-review-skills:popdevr-data-analysisThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
PDR reviewers are expert demographers *and* development scholars, and the journal expects analyses that
PDR reviewers are expert demographers and development scholars, and the journal expects analyses that
are reproducible and interpretable to a broad readership. Analyze as if a methodologist will re-derive
your rates and an economist will ask what each number means for development — because both may. This
skill covers execution and reporting norms; method choice lives in popdevr-research-design.
renv.lock, requirements.txt, recorded ssc/net installs).popdevr-transparency-and-data).Run this as a concrete capability pass. First lock the population process, the development/policy linkage, the data and time scale, the selection/measurement issue, and the uncertainty; then test whether the manuscript addresses PDR's broad audience who inspect both the population evidence and its development meaning.
claim / evidence / blocker / next edit rows so the next pass can patch
the manuscript directly.resources/official-source-map.md for
volatile rules and name the one unresolved fact that could change the recommendation.【Main quantity】rate / e0 / decomposition / hazard / projection + magnitude + interval
【Development meaning】what it implies for the social/economic/environmental outcome
【Exposure / denominator check】correctly constructed? [Y/N]
【Decomposition】components defined + sum to total? [Y/N/NA]
【APC / comparability】constraint stated / cross-country comparability addressed? [Y/N/NA]
【Inference】weights/clustering/competing risks handled? [Y/N]
【Reproducible】master script + seeds + pinned versions? [Y/N]
【Next】popdevr-tables-figures
../../resources/external_tools.md — life-table, decomposition, survival, APC, and projection packages../../resources/official-source-map.md — data-availability and reproducibility expectationsnpx claudepluginhub brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills --plugin population-and-development-review-skillsGuides demography manuscript analysis with correct rate construction, life tables, decomposition, event history, and APC methods. Ensures honest uncertainty, reproducibility, and reviewer-ready results.
Defends the research design of a Population and Development Review manuscript, guiding method choice (life tables, decomposition, event-history, APC, projections) and causal identification for population-and-development questions.
Guides rigorous data analysis and reporting for Social Forces manuscripts, covering uncertainty, robustness, triangulation, and reproducibility for quantitative, demographic, network, or computational work.