Validity: Definitions and Applications to Psychiatric Research

Textbook in Psychiatric Epidemiology: Third Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 99-116

  Goldstein, Jill M ^a   Cherkerzian, Sara ^a   Simpson, John C ^b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1002/9780470976739.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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