Do Suicides From the Golden Gate Bridge Cluster

Datos Bibliográficos

ID13675221
AutoresD W R MACKENZIE (University of Washington), Donald W Mackenzie (University of Washington), D Lester (0000-0003-1357-8672, Stockton University, autor de correspondencia), Russell Manson (0000-0002-9922-7672, Stockton University), Cynthia Yeh (Stockton University)
Año2016
Volumen118
Número1
Páginas70-73
Fecha de publicación2016-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPsychological Reports (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0033294115625565
PMID29693523
OpenAlexW2345097557
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas7

Suicides from popular venues (known as "hotspots") are often publicized and may result in imitation by subsequent suicides that may lead to clustering of the suicides over time. In order to examine whether the suicides from the Golden Gate Bridge showed clustering, data from the 224 suicides during 1999-2009 were analyzed using the Anderson-Darling Test was run on the data against a null hypothesis of a negative exponential distribution (as would be generated by a homogenous Poisson process). It was found that the data were almost a perfect fit for the Poisson distribution and so showed no evidence of clustering beyond that expected to occur by chance alone. This indicates that there was no imitation or contagion in the suicides from the Golden Gate Bridge

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