Predicting National Suicide Numbers with Social Media Data

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Won, Hong Hee ^a   Myung, Woojae ^b   Song, Gil Young ^c   Lee, Won Hee ^c   Kim, Jong Won ^b   Carroll, Bernard J ^d   Kim, Doh Kwan ^b  

^a Samsung Medical Center   (South Korea)

^b Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c Yungjeon Bldg   (South Korea)

^d Pacific Behavioral Research Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSUMER PRICE INDEX; DYSPHORIA; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; FORECASTING; HUMAN; PREDICTION; PUBLIC FIGURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ATTITUDE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL MEDIA; SUICIDE; TREND STUDY; UNEMPLOYMENT; VALIDATION PROCESS;

FAMOUS PERSONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; SOCIAL MEDIA; SUICIDE;

EID: 84876444360     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061809     Document Type: Article

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