@article{ref1,
title="Reasons given by college students for drinking: a discriminant analysis investigation",
journal="International journal of the addictions",
year="1993",
author="Billingham, Robert E. and Parrillo, A. V. and Gross, W. C.",
volume="28",
number="8",
pages="793-802",
abstract="Based on self-reported levels of alcohol consumption, 473 college students (295 female and 178 male) were placed into at-risk or not-at-risk groups. Using reasons given for drinking as the independent variables, discriminant analysis procedures were conducted separately on the males and females to determine if a function could be found which would discriminate between the groups. For the female group, 11 of 22 reasons defined a discriminant function which accounted for 36% of the variance between the groups (p < .001). This function was also able to correctly classify 71% of the holdout sample. For the males, five of the 22 reasons defined a discriminant function which accounted for 36% of the variance between the groups (p < .001). This function was able to correctly classify 69% of the holdout sample.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0020-773X",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}