Mining for Murder-Suicide: An Approach to Identifying Cases of Murder-Suicide in the National Violent Death Reporting System Restricted Access Database

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 245-248

  Mcnally, Matthew R ^a   Patton, Christina L ^a   Fremouw, William J ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Forensic science; Homicide; Homicide suicide; Murder suicide; Suicide; Violence

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; FACTUAL DATABASE; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES;

CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U.S.); DATA MINING; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84956810559     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: 15564029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1556-4029.12887     Document Type: Article

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