Year: 1977 Source: British Journal of Preventive and Social Medicine, v.31, (1977), p.109-115 SIEC No: 19832541

This paper presents frequency distributions of parasuicidal episodes (suicide attempts) in Edinburgh for 4 subgroups of people for each of the years 1970, 1973 & 1974. Probability distributions are fitted to these data & it is shown that the log-series distribution best fits the data for 2 subgroups. The stability of the parameters of these distributions is examined & is demonstrated for 2 of the subgroups.