Citation

Yang Lester B, Lester D. Soc. Psychiatry Psychiatr. Epidemiol. 1990; 25(5): 274-275.

Affiliation

Department of Economics, Drexel University, 19104 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Richard Stockton State College, Pomona, New Jersey, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1990, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/BF00788649

PMID

2237609

Abstract

A time-series study of suicide in the USA from 1940 to 1984 explored the extent to which social and economic variables could predict the actual suicide rate, the smoothed trend in the suicide rate, and deviations of the actual suicide rate from the smoothed trend. It was found that the social and economic variables were more successful in predicting the smoothed trend in the suicide rate.

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