How Can We Learn About Developmental Processes From Cross-Sectional Studies, or Can We?
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- 1 February 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 157 (2) , 163-171
- https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.157.2.163
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Cross-sectional studies are often used in psychiatric research as a basis of longitudinal inferences about developmental or disease processes. While the limitations of such usage are oft...Keywords
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