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

• Ulrich S. Tran ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ulrich S. Tran, Rita Andel

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ulrich.tran@univie.ac.at

  Affiliations Department of Basic Psychological Research and Research Methods, School of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Wiener Werkstaette for Suicide Research, Vienna, Austria

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6589-3167

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• Rita Andel ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ulrich S. Tran, Rita Andel

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Basic Psychological Research and Research Methods, School of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Wiener Werkstaette for Suicide Research, Vienna, Austria

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• Thomas Niederkrotenthaler,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Wiener Werkstaette for Suicide Research, Vienna, Austria, Suicide Research Unit, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

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• Benedikt Till,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Wiener Werkstaette for Suicide Research, Vienna, Austria, Suicide Research Unit, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

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• Vladeta Ajdacic-Gross,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Psychiatric Hospital, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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• Martin Voracek

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Basic Psychological Research and Research Methods, School of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Wiener Werkstaette for Suicide Research, Vienna, Austria

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