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. 2018 Jan 9;115(2):E118-E121.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1715454115. Epub 2017 Dec 29.

Reply to Plewis, Murari et al., and Das: The suicide-temperature link in India and the evidence of an agricultural channel are robust

Tamma A Carleton  1   2
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Reply to Plewis, Murari et al., and Das: The suicide-temperature link in India and the evidence of an agricultural channel are robust

Tamma A Carleton. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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The impact of including humidity on the effect of season-specific temperature and rainfall on suicide rates. The response of annual suicide rates (deaths per 100,000 people) to growing and nongrowing season temperature (A and B) and precipitation (C and D). Red and blue lines show results from a model omitting humidity, while gray lines show results from a model including a quadratic in monthly average specific humidity over the growing and nongrowing seasons. Both regressions include state fixed effects, year fixed effects, and state-specific linear trends. Standard errors are clustered at the state level.
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