Increasing seasonality of suicide in Australia 1970-1999

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 43-51

  Rock, Daniel ^a,b   Greenberg, David M ^b   Hallmayer, Joachim F ^c  

^a Centre for Clinical Research in Neuropsychiatry   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Impulsive behaviour; Periodicity; Seasons

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EUROPE; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MORTALITY; ORGANIZATION; PERIODICITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEASON; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS; SUICIDE; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0141671701     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1781(03)00165-3     Document Type: Article

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