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We collected individualized (unidentifiable) and aggregated openly available data from various sources related to suspected/confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infections, vaccinations, non-pharmaceutical government interventions, human mobility, and levels of population inequality in Brazil. In addition, a data structure allowing real-time data collection, curation, integration, and extract-transform-load processes for different objectives was developed. The granularity of this dataset (state- and municipality-wide) enables its application to individualized and ecological epidemiological studies, statistical, mathematical, and computational modeling, data visualization as well as the scientific dissemination of information on the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil., Comment: 12 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables

This work introduces a novel methodology based on finite mixtures of Student-t distributions to model the errors' distribution in linear regression models. The novelty lies on a particular hierarchical structure for the mixture distribution in which the first level models the number of modes, responsible to accommodate multimodality and skewness features, and the second level models tail behavior. Moreover, the latter is specified in a way that no degrees of freedom parameters are estimated and, therefore, the known statistical difficulties when dealing with those parameters is mitigated, and yet model flexibility is not compromised. Inference is performed via Markov chain Monte Carlo and simulation studies are conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposed methodology. The analysis of two real data sets are also presented.