The epidemiology of suicide in London

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

Volumn 159, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 515-533

  Congdon, Peter ^a,b,c  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Barking and Havering Hlth Authority   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anomie; Clustering; Contextual effects; Deprivation; Mixture models; Suicide trends

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040657349     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2983329     Document Type: Article

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