title: Is there a natural suicide rate for a society?
abstract: It was argued that no society could be free of suicide. To test this, from published literature 27 social variables related to suicide were set to zero in the multiple regression equations, and the estimated suicide rate was observed to be positive and nonzero.
authors.affiliation: Department of Economics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104.
authors.forename: B J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lester
mesh_terms: D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013405:Suicide / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology