Drug and Alcohol Dependence
Volume 107, Issue 2 , Pages 215-220 , 1 March 2010

Predicting drinking onset with discrete-time survival analysis in offspring from the San Diego prospective study

Received 10 April 2009 ,Revised 27 October 2009 ,Accepted 28 October 2009.

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Drug and Alcohol Dependence
Volume 107, Issue 2 , Pages 215-220 , 1 March 2010