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Correlation Between Depression And Sleep Deprivation

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The study I read for this paper was completed in 2012. It is a complex study that was at times, hard to understand. Regardless of this fact, I will try my best to explain what the study was about, how it was done, and what the results were. The topic that the researchers in the study that I was reading pursued was the correlation and causation between depression and sleep deprivation. The researchers wanted to find out through causality algorithms plugged into the computer whether their research subjects could prove the hypothesized link between depression and sleep deprivation. At the time of their study, causality algorithms were rather new. Unfortunately, due to my lack of knowledge in statistics and mathematics, I will be unable to analyze this aspect of the study. However, there are other aspects that I found interesting, and so these will be focused on. The researchers pulled from two different studies that have been ongoing throughout the years. One was a study of young Finnish people. The original sample size was of 3596 individuals, however, that database has grown over the years. In the beginning of the study, six age beginning points were studied. The children were studied from 1980 until now (it is still ongoing), and they were from age 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, and 18 years at the starting year. Because the study wanted a more diverse group to study, they pulled participants from five different cities, in five different districts in Finland. They also used

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