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Age Incidence and Schizophrenia: Part II. Beyond Age Incidence

Schizophrenia BulletinPublished 1 January 1989Open access
Marc S. Lewis
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TL;DR

These distortions also appear in nonseasonal studies of incidence, and their removal from data for schizophrenia reveals an unsuspected lawfulness that provides clues to the nature of that disease.

Abstract

Distortions caused by age incidence can combine in a way that greatly increases their magnitude. These distortions also appear in nonseasonal studies of incidence, and their removal from data for schizophrenia reveals an unsuspected lawfulness that provides clues to the nature of that disease.

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