Abstract

A Probabilistic Approach to the Assessment of Suicidal Risk Among Mental Hospital Patients (Micro RC 569 D85 1977)

Durham T W

Year: 1977 Source: Thesis (Ph.D.)-Florida State University, 1977. 66p. SIEC No: 19831675

Study conceptualizing suicide risk as a continuum of probability. A Bayesian analysis of demographic and mental status variables which differentiate completed suicides from a normative population is used to derive the probability measures. (KB)