Gender-specific differences and the impact of family integration on time trends in age-stratified Swiss suicide rates

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

Volumn 175, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 473-490

  Riebler, Andrea ^a   Held, Leonhard ^a   Rue, Håvard ^b   Bopp, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Age period cohort model; Bayesian analysis; Family integration; Suicide; Switzerland

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857646492     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2011.01013.x     Document Type: Article

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