[PRE REVIEW]: snSMART: An R Package for Small Sample, Sequential, Multiple Assignment, Randomized Trial Data Analysis

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Submitting author: @sidiwang (Sidi Wang)
Repository: https://github.com/sidiwang/snSMART
Branch with paper.md (empty if default branch): JOSS
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Editor: @osorensen
Reviewers: @aghaynes, @ezraporter
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Software report:

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Commit count by author:

   105	Sidi Wang
    27	sidiwang
    13	Michael Kleinsasser
     1	Michael (Mike) Kleinsasser

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

OK DOIs

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- 10.1016/j.cct.2020.105989 may be a valid DOI for title: Dynamic Treatment Regimens in Small N, Sequential,...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: A Bayesian Group Sequential Small N Sequential Mul...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: A Bayesian Analysis of Small N Sequential Multiple...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Sample Size Determination for Bayesian Analysis of...
- 10.1002/sim.8813 may be a valid DOI for title: Bayesian Methods to Compare Dose Levels with Place...
- 10.1002/sim.8776 may be a valid DOI for title: Design and Analysis Considerations for Utilizing a...
- 10.1016/s0140-6736(02)07283-5 may be a valid DOI for title: An Overview of Clinical Research: the Lay of the L...
- 10.1186/s13063-020-04285-3 may be a valid DOI for title: Protocol for a Randomized Multicenter Study for Is...
- 10.2307/2348770 may be a valid DOI for title: A Bayesian Approach to Calculating Sample Sizes
- 10.1111/1467-985x.00154 may be a valid DOI for title: A Design for Testing Clinical Strategies: Biased A...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: An Experimental Design for the Development of Adap...
- 10.1093/biostatistics/kxr016 may be a valid DOI for title: Efficient Design and Inference for Multistage Rand...
- 10.32614/cran.package.geepack may be a valid DOI for title: geepack: Generalized Estimating Equation Package
- No DOI given, and none found for title: The R Package geepack for Generalized Estimating E...
- 10.1002/sim.1650 may be a valid DOI for title: Estimating Equations for Association Structures
- No DOI given, and none found for title: geepack: Yet Another Package for Generalized Estim...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Longitudinal Data Analysis for Discrete and Contin...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: JAGS: A Program for Analysis of Bayesian Graphical...
- 10.32614/cran.package.envstats may be a valid DOI for title: EnvStats: Package for Environmental Statistics, In...
- 10.32614/cran.package.rjags may be a valid DOI for title: rjags: Bayesian Graphical Models using MCMC

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Paper file info:

📄 Wordcount for paper.md is 1832

✅ The paper includes a Statement of need section

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[sidiwang]

👋 @sidiwang - thanks for your submission to JOSS. All of our the editors who would be able to edit this submission are currently occupied. I am going to waitlist this submission until one becomes available.

In the meantime, I notice you specify a license in your package but there is no LICENSE file in the root of the repository. Please add the appropriate open source license to your repository. Also, at first glance, I don't see any tests accompanying your package. This will come up if your submission makes it into full review so please try to take care of that ahead of time. There are also many DOI in your references not accounted for (see report above). Lastly, please reduce the length of the paper down to around 1000 words maximum.

Thanks!

Thank you for your feedback! I have made the changes, and hopefully, the package and the paper look better now. If any more edits are recommended, please let me know!

[osorensen]

👋 @gasparl, @aghaynes, @rsh52, would any of you be willing to review this submission for JOSS? We carry out our checklist-driven reviews here in GitHub issues and follow these guidelines: https://joss.readthedocs.io/en/latest/review_criteria.html

[rsh52]

Thanks @osorensen!

My colleague and fellow co-author on our JOSS paper, @ezraporter, might be a better choice for this given his stats background.

[aghaynes]

Hi @osorensen, I can do a review, although it might have to be next week...

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Thanks @aghaynes; it's absolutely alright if it takes a few weeks until you start the review.

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@ezraporter would you be willing to review this submission for JOSS? We carry out our checklist-driven reviews here in GitHub issues and follow these guidelines: https://joss.readthedocs.io/en/latest/review_criteria.html

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@osorensen yes, I'd be happy to!

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