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The author acknowledges the help of the following persons whose criticisms improved this paper: Arnold Binder, June Catalano, Ross Conner, David Dooley, Gary Evans, Robert Jackson, Stanislav Kasl, and Laurence Steinberg. This research was supported in part by NIMH grant MH 28934.
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Catalano, R. Contending with rival hypotheses in correlation of aggregate time-series (CATS): An overview for community psychologists. Am J Commun Psychol 9, 667–679 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00896248
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