Effects of government policies and the Nowruz holidays on confirmed COVID-19 cases in Iran: An intervention time series analysis

• Ali Hadianfar,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Student Research Committee, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran, Department of Biostatistics, School of Health, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

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• Razieh Yousefi,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Student Research Committee, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran, Department of Biostatistics, School of Health, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

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• Milad Delavary,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software

  Affiliation Department of Health Sciences, Laboratoire BioNR and Centre Intersectoriel en Santé Durable (CISD), Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada

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• Vahid Fakoor ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision

  * E-mail: Fakoor@um.ac.ir

  Affiliation Department of Statistics, Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6873-0064

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• Mohammad Taghi Shakeri,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

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• Martin Lavallière

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health Sciences, Laboratoire BioNR and Centre Intersectoriel en Santé Durable (CISD), Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0247-0308

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