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Are the lifetime prevalence estimates in the ECA study accurate?1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Gordon Parker
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Psychological Medicine , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , May 1987 , pp. 275 - 282
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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