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Suicide variations of the 1751–2008 period. Initial suicide rates (a) were calculated relative to population changes and their transformations (b) relative to the changing variance and non-linear trends. See Supplementary material (Table S1) for descriptive statistics of data. Z-score refers to the number of standard deviations from the long-term mean of the series
