Letter to the Editor: Suicide as a complex classification problem: Machine learning and related techniques can advance suicide prediction - A reply to Roaldset (2016)

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 2009-2010

  Ribeiro, J D ^a   Franklin, J C ^a   Fox, K R ^b   Bentley, K H ^c   Kleiman, E M ^b   Chang, B P ^d   Nock, M K ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; MACHINE LEARNING; SUICIDE;

HUMANS; MACHINE LEARNING; SUICIDE;

EID: 84964335362     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: 14698978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291716000611     Document Type: Letter

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