How Search Engine Data Enhance the Understanding of Determinants of Suicide in India and Inform Prevention: Observational Study

Conclusions: In this work, we used search data and demographics to model suicide rates. In this way, search data serve as a proxy for unmeasured (hidden) factors corresponding to suicide rates. Moreover, our procedure for outlier rejection serves to single out states where the suicide rates have substantially different correlations with demographic factors and query rates.

Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research - January 4, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Natalia Adler Ciro Cattuto Kyriaki Kalimeri Daniela Paolotti Michele Tizzoni Stefaan Verhulst Elad Yom-Tov Andrew Young Source Type: research