Age-of-onset or age-cohort changes in the lifetime occurrence of depression?

Psychiatric Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 27-33

  Stassen, H H ^a   Ragaz, M ^a   Reich, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PSYCHIATRY   (Switzerland)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Contingency tables; Depression; Incomplete observations; Log linear models; Secular trends

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTINGENCY TABLE; DEPRESSION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBSERVATION; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0030785762     PISSN: 09558829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00041444-199700710-00004     Document Type: Article

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