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Maris, Ronald W. – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 1991
To predict suicide, explicit causal models of suicide outcome are needed in which predictors are temporally ordered and then tested statistically. Because suicide is a dichotomous, nominal scale outcome, only certain statistics for prediction are appropriate. Logistic regression, which utilizes the likelihood ratio test of statistical inference,…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Predictive Measurement, Predictor Variables, Research Design