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Etiological hypotheses in schizophrenia: Cross‐level analysis
Author(s) -
Cleek Richard K.,
Cleek Margaret Guminski
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(198411)40:6<1295::aid-jclp2270400603>3.0.co;2-k
Subject(s) - etiology , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , psychology , regression analysis , dimension (graph theory) , inference , population , regression , clinical psychology , cognitive psychology , psychiatry , statistics , medicine , psychotherapist , artificial intelligence , computer science , environmental health , mathematics , pure mathematics
Used the multicausal hypothesis generation capabilities of multiple regression analysis of aggregate data to explore the complex etiology of schizophrenia. Attendant dangers of ecological inference are controlled by combining regression analysis with individual‐level analysis of the same population. The resulting cross‐level analysis adds a new dimension to our understanding.