Low validity of Google Trends for behavioral forecasting of national suicide rates.

Recent research suggests that search volumes of the most popular search engine worldwide, Google, provided via Google Trends, could be associated with national suicide rates in the USA, UK, and some Asian countries. However, search volumes have mostly been studied in an ad hoc fashion, without contr...

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Main Authors: Ulrich S Tran, Rita Andel, Thomas Niederkrotenthaler, Benedikt Till, Vladeta Ajdacic-Gross, Martin Voracek
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5558943?pdf=render