Suicide from the Golden Gate Bridge
Do They Cluster over Time
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 13655482 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Murray R Kirch (Richard Stockton State College, autor de correspondencia), D Lester (0000-0003-1357-8672, Richard Stockton State College) |
| Año | 1986 |
| Volumen | 59 |
| Número | 3 |
| Páginas | 1314-1314 |
| Fecha de publicación | 1986-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Psychological Reports (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X |
| Editorial | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2466/pr0.1986.59.3.1314 |
| PMID | 3823330 |
| OpenAlex | W1987695596 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 4 |
| Referencias citadas | 2 |
Epidemics of suicidal behavior have been reported in hospitals (Crawford, 1966) and military bases (Hankoff, 1961). The present analysis concerned data collected by the second author during a visit to the Medical Examiner's office in San Francisco for 47 jumpers from the Golden Gate Bridge for a two-year period ( 1976-1977) and investigated whether they conformed to a random process. The null hypothesis was that the Golden Gate Bridge suicides formed a Poisson process with a mean arrival rate for the two-year period given by the mean of 46/729 per day. A statistical test was designed with two parameters No and L as follows. Take a sample of size N of waiting times and let Z = the number of values No. A program was written to generate significance tables for various values of No and L. In the data, there were four waiting periods of 4 1 (a = 0.31). There were six waiting periods 4 2 (a = 0.47). There were nine waiting periods 4 3 (U = 0.40). There were 12 waiting periods 4 4 (a = 0.32). There were 13 waiting periods 6 5 (a = 0.61). Thus, we could not reject the null hypothesis. It seems, therefore, that jumpers from the Golden Gate Bridge are randomly distributed over time and that no discernible clustering effect was apparent
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