A comparison of suicide patterns in Australia and Hong Kong

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 164, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 467-483

  Lloyd, Chris J ^a   Yip, Paul S F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Goodness of fit; Logistic regression; Preservation coefficient; Sparse contingency tables

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035649895     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-985X.00214     Document Type: Article

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