Suicide and media reporting: A longitudinal and spatial analysis

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 427-435

  Yang, Albert C ^a,b,c   Tsai, Shih Jen ^a,b   Yang, Cheng Hung ^a,b   Shia, Ben Chang ^d   Fuh, Jong Ling ^a   Wang, Shuu Jiun ^a   Peng, Chung Kang ^e   Huang, Norden E ^c  

^a TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d FU JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Completed suicide; Empirical mode decomposition; Media; Time series analysis; Time dependent intrinsic correlation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMITATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MASS MEDIUM; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC FIGURE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; SUICIDE; TAIWAN; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FAMOUS PERSONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MASS MEDIA; MIDDLE AGED; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SUICIDE; TAIWAN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878345183     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-012-0562-1     Document Type: Article

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