Predictors of Coroner's Verdict: A Logistic Regression Model
- 1 July 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Medicine, Science and the Law
- Vol. 36 (3) , 237-241
- https://doi.org/10.1177/002580249603600310
Abstract
This study is an attempt to understand the effect of various factors that are likely to have influenced North Cheshire's Coroners during a five-year period in their decision to return a‘suicide’ or an‘open’ verdict. Based on the logistic model, the main factors that appeared to have influenced a Coroners decision are: intimation of intent, method of death and alcohol problem.Keywords
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