Investigating Onset, Cessation, Relapse, and Recovery: Why You Should, and How You Can, Use Discrete-Time Survival Analysis to Examine Event Occurrence.

Willett, John B.; Singer, Judith D.

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ERIC Number: EJ475516

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1993

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Investigating Onset, Cessation, Relapse, and Recovery: Why You Should, and How You Can, Use Discrete-Time Survival Analysis to Examine Event Occurrence.

Willett, John B.; Singer, Judith D.

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, v61 n6 p952-65 Dec 1993

Shows how discrete-time survival analysis can address questions about onset, cessation, relapse, and recovery. Uses data on onset of suicide ideation and depression and relapse into cocaine use to introduce concepts underpinning method, describe action of discrete-time hazard model, and discuss main effects and interactions that can be included as predictors. (Author/NB)

Descriptors: Cocaine, Data Analysis, Depression (Psychology), Drug Use, Etiology, Evaluation Methods, Suicide

Publication Type: Reports - General; Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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