Suicide seasonality: Complex demodulation as a novel approach in epidemiologic analysis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Nader, Ingo W ^a   Pietschnig, Jakob ^a   Niederkrotenthaler, Thomas ^b   Kapusta, Nestor D ^c   Sonneck, Gernot ^b,d   Voracek, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Medical University of Vienna   (Austria)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; AUTOMUTILATION; BIOSTATISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROWNING; FEMALE; HANGING; HUMAN; JUMPING; MALE; SEASONAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; SUICIDE; TREND STUDY; CAUSE OF DEATH; EPIDEMIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; SEASON; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICS;

AUSTRIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; SEASONS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SUICIDE;

EID: 79952077964     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017413     Document Type: Article

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